Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered...
...left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then and run down the brick walk and when he reached the road he continued to run borno along by the force of the wind faster and faster. His face was twisted with pain and his hands pressed together in agony. 'I'm very amusing', the shouted over and over, I'm essentially a comic character...
...tribes." An aristocrat among Creeks is Juanita Deere McClish. Plump, pretty, full-lipped, she is 5 ft. tall, weighs 88 lb., will be 12 years old next June. Her widowed mother, Woosey Deere, owns 160 acres dotted with oil wells worth $650,000. They live in a $45,000 brick house near Sapulpa, Okla. on a neatly landscaped estate equipped with a garage for their three expensive automobiles. At Bacone Indian College & School in Muskogee, Okla. last year Juanita met and loved Buster McClish, 18, a Choctaw farmer boy from southern Oklahoma. With a baby on the way they decided...
Several Army and Navy officers, a few scientists including Radio Engineer Greenleaf Whittier Pickard, a doctor or two, some newshawks, a dentist, the head of Liquid Carbonic Corp. and a handful of his employes stood in a circle last week in the company's one-story brick building in the malodorous gashouse district of Cambridge, Mass. In the middle of the room was a steel tank big enough to hold a pony. It was lined with i.ooo Ib. of frozen carbon dioxide, popularly called "dry ice." The temperature inside was somewhere between...
Sample question: Has anybody ever gotten away with anything here-that is pinched a brick...