Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...launch, to be used by coaches of the University crews, was piloted north on the seacoast by one man, and, though twice threatened with rough water which caused it to put in, no accidents resulted...
Marshal Pilsudski who is now gulping mineral water at a Rumanian spa, "The Baths of Hercules," did not repudiate the suggestion of a Crown. Poland was of truly Imperial dimensions circa 1650 in the great days of Ladislas IV and John Casimir...
They are equipped with luxurious trappings, hot and cold running water, sleeping compartments, radio sets, spacious windows. The 90-foot wing spread will lift, beside fuel and passengers, 1,000 pounds of baggage. The three Wright Cyclone motors will propel this load at an average 130 m. p. h. for four and one-half hours, could if necessary attain 155 m. p. h., climb 16,100 feet. Edgar M. Gott, president of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., has for the last two months kept the construction of these monsters a secret...
...months ago, in a field, not far from Los Angeles, Calif., they were harvesting barley. Then came hordes of men bearing tons of wood, truck loads of nails, 9,000 barrels of oil, 2,000,000 gallons of water, The wood and nails they made into a grandstand (capacity 17,000) into an exposition building, ultra modern, larger than a city block. The oil and water they sprinkled on the field so that whirling hundreds of propellers would not raise a dust...
...laboratories. By tedious fractional precipitation of pituitrin he has been able to separate two hormones−oxytocin useful in obstetrics. vasopressin useful in keeping up normal blood pressure during certain operations, useful too against diabetes insipidus. Dr. Kamm reasons that the danger from burns comes from the boiling of water out of the skin and flesh, and the failure of the body to replace that water effectively. His vasopressin he believes may stimulate the body to repair the water shortage of burns...