Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alcan must also have some assurance of a steady market for the aluminum that Kitimat will produce. That market will depend mainly on the outcome of Washington negotiations (TIME, Dec. 25), in which Alcan hopes to get a U.S. defense order that will guarantee the sale of a big chunk of Kitimat's future output...
...Royal Seat. A rectangular chunk of yellow sandstone was missing from the base of a 654-year-old chair in which 27 British monarchs had sat for coronation. Edward I had brought the Stone to London in 1296 to celebrate his 21-day campaign against Scotland, had the coronation chair built around it and crowned himself King of England and Scotland. Edward had swiped the Stone from the Perthshire Abbey of Scone (rhymes in Scotland with boon, in England with lone), where it had formed the base of another chair in which the Kings of Scotland had been crowned...
...Dime-Store Stuff." Most of the schools Reporter Shannon described had only potbellied or chunk stoves for heating. Most classrooms had only a single naked bulb for lighting, some had no electricity at all. There were gaping holes in both floors and ceilings, broken windowpanes, tattered shades, and only a few pieces ("dime-store stuff") of laboratory equipment...
...cancer specialist at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, had a triumph to announce for his hospital. The Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga, which controls most of the world's limited supply of radium, had promised the hospital a five-year loan of the biggest chunk of radium (50 grams-about 1/10 lb.)* ever amassed. Estimated value...
...that brushed the brows of spectators at dark séances) were concocted out of paraffin or simply from "a kid glove filled with wet sawdust . . . kept on ice." One piece of so-called "ectoplasm" ("ectopiffle would be a better name," remarked a surly magician) proved to be a chunk of animal lung. The only "spirit body" that Rinn failed to duplicate was that of a "baby" which, in a dim light, a famous woman medium of the '80s used to permit patrons to kiss: it proved to be her own bosom, painted with a cherubic visage...