Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased was France the next day when Mr. Kellogg knelt unostentatiously at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...steel in contact with aluminum. This calorizing process (exploited by Calorizing Co. of America at Pittsburgh, a General Electric offshoot) helps prevent oxidation, but reputedly little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric arc whence an air blast blows the melting aluminum against its carrier object, just as paint or lacquer is blown. This (a Swiss method) produces a porous aluminum coating little protective against acids...
...were lost or deliberately returning toward Europe. Near Cape Finisterre, clogging in a gasoline feed pipe forced them to descend, the impact smashing the plane's wings. The duo, swimming near the disabled plane, were immediately rescued by the crew of the Samos. They had described a giant arc over the Atlantic; with a minimum cruising speed of 90 miles per hour, they must in their 36 hours of flight have traveled approximately 3,000 miles...
...cruel efficiency. When the War was over he designed the Bayonet Trench Monument near Verdun, presented by George Franklin Rand, Buffalo banker, and dedicated to the memory of the soldiers who had been killed at Verdun; he made the grating that sur rounds the perpetual fire under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris...
...their ordinary names makes it seem that Brandt is no more than a successful plumber who conducts his trade with an eye for symmetry rather than the clock. Such is not the case. When Brandt designs a clotheshorse the thing is as lovely as a statue; his screens arc metal tapestries, executed with the clarity of silhouettes, touched with a unique grace, severe, luxurious and odd. Forty-five, a native of Alsace-Lorraine and a resident of Paris, Edgar Brandt has none of the look of a Latin Quarter esthete; one would perhaps pick him out by appearance...