Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes water stick to the sides of a glass, and if a column of glass is fine enough, water will actually climb up its sides. Suppose, reasoned Walker, this "wetting" principle were applied to a porous membrane: would water filling the pores have enough surface (or "interfacial") tension to block other liquids while letting water through...
...long puzzled physiologists: why it is that oxygen can pass from the lung into the blood, but blood cannot enter the lung. Walker's theory: blood vessels in the walls of the lung are porous membranes coated with fatty substances that are not wetted by blood, therefore they block blood but let gases pass freely...
This silvery, gleaming sheet of aluminum is more than a city block long. It is shown on the run-out table of the Defense Plant Corporation's new sheet mill, operated by Alcoa at McCook, Ill. The sheet is on its way to make airplane skins. The new plant, one of the world's largest, can roll aluminum more than 50 times faster than prewar equipment...
...bombs on Messina and Palermo crippled that system. Coningham's medium bombers, light bombers and fighter-bombers struck its inner vitals-at Enna, Leonforte and Caltagirone, at the tunnels which pierce the Sicilian hills and offer rare opportunities to block the rail lines. By week's end the R.A.F. reported that the main line along the east coast from Messina to Catania had been blocked, the north Coastal railway from Palermo to Messina cut in one place, the winding line from Palermo across Sicily to Syracuse "destroyed...
John Payne climbs from the wrong side of the tracks to San Francisco's Nobb Hill, going "high hat in a big way" as he terms it. Lynn Bari proves to be a stumbling block, however, and Alice Faye picks up the pieces...