Crossword-Solution: PRIESTLEY
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| Author of "The Good Companions" | 1 answer |
| Brit. writer | 1 answer |
| Enlightenment thinker Joseph who's credited with discovering oxygen | 1 answer |
| J. B. | 1 answer |
| J.B. | 1 answer |
| Jason of "Beverly Hills, 90210" | 1 answer |
| Oxygen discoverer | 2 answers |
| English playwright | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PRIESTLEY (5)
CHAPTER XCIV Prerogative--Feeling of gratitude--A long history--Alliterative style--Advantageous specimen--Jesuit benefice--Not sufficient--Queen Stork's tragedy--Good sense--Grandeur and gentility--Ironmonger's daughter--Clan Mac-Sycophant--Lickspittles--A curiosity--Newspaper editors--Charles the Simple--High-flying ditty--Dissenters--Lower classes--Priestley's house--Saxon ancestors--Austin--Renovating glass--Money--Quite original.
Priestley was considered unsound in his views of the Trinity; it was evidently suspected that this might vitiate his astronomical observations; he was rejected, and the expedition crippled.
Priestley was at Leeds, he was asked by Sir Joseph Banks to join Captain Cook's second expedition to the Southern Seas, as an astronomer.
Priestley, in his Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit, carries the theory one step farther; and, as Newton surrounds his exceedingly small particles with spheres of attraction and repulsion, precluding in all cases their actual contact, Priestley is disposed to regard the centre of these spheres as mathematical points only.
The experiments were continued with smoke, which produced only a slightly better effect, and, moreover, the paper bag into which the smoke was induced permitted of escape through its pores; finding this method a failure the brothers desisted until Priestley's work became known to them, and they conceived the use of hydrogen as a lifting factor.
Quotes with PRIESTLEY (2)
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power …
The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of the troubled and frothy surface.[Alluding to Joseph Priestley's Observations on Air]
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1971–2020).