Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objecting to the heaviness of the long-haired ball after it becomes grass-stained and moist. United States Lawn Tennis Association officials, ruefully watching their top-notchers eliminated in the early rounds, pondered using a special ball for future grass-court tournaments, retaining the fuzz ball for play on clay and concrete, where its heavy nap is no hindrance...
Irked by Japanese boasts of knocking down Russian planes like clay pigeons, Red aviators bombed the railhead at Halunarshan, 125 miles behind the front. The Japanese had scarcely begun to protest that this was not cricket when a squadron of Russian bombers peppered Furoruji, almost 400 miles from the scene of battle. This, the Japanese announced, "differed radically from the border affair" and was going too far. If the Russians do not stop dumping bombs deep in Manchukuo, they said, Japanese planes will carry the war into Siberia. Next day seven Red bombers took the dare and blasted Halunarshan again...
Last year Professor Ernst Alfred Hauser of Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered a new kind of wrapping material -odorless, tasteless, impervious to fire and corrosion by acids-made from bentonite clay and called "Alsifilm" (TIME, Nov. 7). Alsifilm is already being used to replace mica (isinglass) in electric motor and generator insulation. Last week Professor Hauser looked forward to a time when Alsifilm would free the U. S. of dependence on foreign supplies of mica, now largely imported from India...
...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
...Buren) has shown he can write a rousing account of the rousing Civil War period without depending on battle scenes for his excitement. American Nabob reads like a political biography full of interesting scandal. Chief figure is fictional Curtis Larkins, a wildcat country banker who modeled himself on Henry Clay and Napoleon, grabbed a mountain region full of coal and oil during the Civil War's confusion, developed it afterwards with rugged individualism...