Word: binder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astrolite cannot resist continuous high temperature (the plastic binder melts at about 450° F.), but it is remarkably successful against short attacks of extreme heat. It is used in 20 types of missiles, sometimes in the nose cones, sometimes in other hot spots such as the nozzles of rocket motors. The Thompson company says that a laminated layer of Astro-lite two-tenths of an inch thick can protect the nose of an IRBM. For an ICBM, which enters the atmosphere much faster, four inches may be needed. This thickness weighs, says Thompson, only one-fifteenth as much...
Skid proof Streets. Roads and driveways can be skidproofed with a liquid resin binder developed by Shell Chemical Corp. and Reliance Products Co. Relcote is applied like any enamel paint, also protects roadbed from freezing, thawing and salts. Cost: $2.50 to $8.00 per sq. yd., depending on road surfaces...
...Dust & Fireflies. Dick Russell's roots lie deeply and inextricably in the long-lost dream of the Old South. He was born in Winder (rhymes with binder), 46 miles northeast of Atlanta, the son of a struggling county courthouse lawyer. He was brought up with six brothers and six sisters amid a smoky Georgia haze of swollen, mud-yellow streams and blowing red dust, of pine-cone fires and fireflies and summer thunder, of white new-blown cotton and wild peach blossoms and slow mules dragging their lazy load. The family was poor-"If we wanted a drink...
...This is the House of Fellowship Binder of bonds that ne'er shall slip. Here but one word on every lip, Harvard--and Harvard alone...
...reader should be able to read the opening and concluding portions of the thesis and at once have a clear idea of what the author is talking about and of what he thinks he has demonstrated." Perhaps all one has to do is stuff the middle of his thesis binder with old Gen Ed papers...