Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aboard the Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot them down. With one accord, all the men rebel, fling the officers overboard, commandeer the ship, receive food and sympathy from the harbor town of Odessa, steam past the rest of the fleet (whose crews refuse to fire on their...
...administered on liberal and democratic terms. Tentative efforts have already been made for its founding. In the West the old Claremont Colleges in California, with their program recently announced, stand out as foremost examples of what is going on. Unnamed new colleges are being cut out of whole cloth; and the old educational world is watching in order to see whether the pattern will tell us anything. For we are all convinced that some of the old fashions are outworn...
...Renaissance printer's skill. After 420 years of use and exposure to various climates, the pages are still unharmed and the ink, made of a vegetable dye preparation, is as black and fresh as when it was first produced. The paper in the book was handmade from old cloth, and the printing was accomplished with a hand press...
...Greeks wove shrouds of asbestos fibre in which to cremate their dead. Thus the human ashes were kept from mixing with the wood ashes of the pyre. The Greeks also used asbestos cloth for handkerchiefs, and Charlemagne is said to have had an asbestos tablecloth which he threw into the fire to cleanse...
John B. Bolton, expert in fabrics, invented the cloth out of which semisoft collars are made. Then there was John M. Van Heusen, who vainly tried to sell the material to collar manufacturers until one day he talked to Isaac ("Iky") Phillips, a shirt manufacturer. Mr. Phillips arranged to give Mr. Van Heusen a royalty and had his Phillips, Jones Co. make up a job lot of the new collars...