Word: blobbing
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...Chairman Ed Birmingham of Iowa's State Democratic Committee came close to spoiling the scenery with a blob of politics just before the curtain went up on Mr. Hopkins' act. Zealous candidate for the vacant throne of the Bureau of Fisheries in Mr. Hopkins' department, Mr. Birmingham gave the impression that Iowa delegates were being lined up for Mr. Hopkins' nomination as President next year. Mr. Birmingham was quickly shushed, but no political observer missed the point that the prize at stake in Harry Hopkins' performance was not just one State's convention delegates...
...course of his experiments, Dr. Hauser made a gelatinous blob of wet bentonite which he dried out 'in order to ascertain the weight shrinkage. The paper-like lining which surprised him was then deposited. Under the microscope he saw that the minute clay particles had joined together in long chains which matted, making a tough, pliant membrane. This phenomenon, though familiar in organic substances, was not previously known to occur in minerals such as clay.* Dr. Hauser's theory is that the bentonite clay particles are electrically charged, and so line up end to end in chains...
...front page of the San Francisco Chronicle early this month appeared an insulting blob of black type. In it Executive Editor Paul C. Smith announced imperatively that he was fed up with a dispute between San Francisco warehouse operators and C. I. O. warehousemen-the negotiators were bungling, and the C. I. O. members should return to work until the "hot" car that caused the dispute cooled off. The International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union dared him to take a hand. He accepted...
...clear spectrum it is necessary to work with a very narrow band of light; but, because of atmospheric distortion, the image comes in as a diffuse, approximately circular blob. In practice the light is therefore fed through a narrow slit, perhaps one-thousandth of an inch wide. This screens off most of the diffuse image, but wastes 90 to 95% of the light, squanders countless hours of exposure time on big telescopes, prevents spectroscopic analysis of the farthest visible nebulae or "island universes...
...Ilya Bolotowsky, 30, Russian-born artist skilled in the blob, or kidney, type of abstraction...