Word: carloading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Matter. Cash now manufactures capsules by the carload for use in copying paper, but long before the capsules became a commercial success, the research men found more interesting jobs for them to do. In a sense, the microscopic capsules are a new form of matter, with properties of both liquids and solids. The liquid chemicals inside them may be highly reactive, but until the capsules are broken they remain almost as inert as sand...
...exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts. Featured opposite her: her estranged husband, Moises Vivanco, 38, with a supporting cast of two Inca folk dancers, one confused harp player, three private eyes, one happy collie, a carload of cops. It began in January when Yma's husband lost a paternity suit brought by Yma's former secretary, and was declared the father of the secretary's twin girls. Yma sued for divorce. The action of Act II was not so clear, but Husband Vivanco...
...carload of Errol Flynns would not have helped the varsity fencing team last night as it flunked its most difficult test of the year, 21 to 6, against undefeated N.Y.U. The Violet, with five southpaws, completely outfenced the Crimson despite a very strong performance by the locals. If the varsity fences as well tonight against Columbia, it should be able to pick up a win and round out its Ivy record...
Physicians used to treat rheumatoid arthritis by guess and by God, gave aspirin by the carload to ease the pain of inflamed, swollen and exquisitely tender joints. In the 19305 it was found that, for no known reason, injections of certain gold salts brought the disease under control. Treatment was fraught with danger of damage to liver and kidneys. But the net effect was beneficial in perhaps 40% of cases...
Suddenly it was all over. The four years of Cambridge, with Greta Garbo and Douglas Fairbanks playing at the University Theatre, dinners at the Georgian, Mallory straws and raccoon coats at the Coop, and Old Golds without "a cough in a carload," this was all finished...