Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory propounded by Building Materials Dealer Jack Scherer: windshield glass is made from silica sand, which abounds on the Pacific shores of the State of Washington. Silica sand is full of sand-flea eggs. So, when the windshields get warm enough, the eggs hatch and the fleas have to chip the glass to get out. When he learned that his facetiously offered explanation had been wired across the country, the astonished Scherer granted that it was no more ridiculous than some others that had been publicized...
...grew older, Dodgson learned the art of finding or creating "spirits of peace" that alleviated earthly wretchedness. Alice in Wonderland is the bright vision by which he is known, but it is a mere fragment of the whole-a solitary chip off the imagination of a man who built wonderlands in every spare moment. First in his fancy came the new and magic world of photography, and only the large shadow thrown by Lewis Carroll has prevented the Rev. Mr. Dodgson from being famed as one of the greatest of early photographers. He was also fascinated by anagrams, cipher writing...
...turning point in the meet came when Dyer and Lind captured the first two places in the 100-yard free-style, which Williston, in the persons of Chip Ide and Larry Schuescher, was favored to take...
...Moscow last week, Communist offers to trade with the West took on the appearance of a major offensive. To a 33-man delegation of blue-chip British businessmen, the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade made an offer that resounded round the world: $1.1 billion worth of orders for British manufactures to be paid for in cash and delivered within three years...
Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was speaking before London's Constitutional Club, a blue-blood and blue-chip Tory audience which applauded him rousingly. Socialists complained that he had infringed "the rights of Her Majesty's Parliament" by airing "important policy" before a private group, but such constitutional niceties were soon submerged in debate over what his lordship...