Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will not complete their run until sometime in September. Donnelley's has four-color presses in which special chemicals dry the ink quickly, machines which wrap and label 8000 books an hour. Five hundred girls do nothing but hand-work- inserting color pages and swatches of cloth. One girl can stick on 1000 swatches an hour-about one every three seconds. In binding the books no stitching is used; the pages are stuck together as they whiz through a glueing machine...
...that customers may submit its cloth samples to close scrutiny, Sears supplies a magnifying glass with every catalog...
Fast Dye. Two specimens are cut from the piece of cloth. One specimen is used for the test; the other saved for comparison after the test. The test specimen is sewed to a piece of bleached cotton cloth and placed in a jar of hot (160 degrees F.) soapy water with ten ⅜-in. rubber balls. The jar is whirled in a rotating machine for 30 minutes. This procedure rubs the cloth samples as hard as any washing machine or washwoman can ever do. After thorough rinsing in warm (110 degrees F.) water, drying and ironing (at 275 degrees...
...photographs taken in broad daylight by two hard-headed Britishers reached the U. S. The pictures show a white-robed Indian Yogi reclining several feet above the ground in a sculpturesque attitude of repose. Except for his long-nailed right hand cupped over the top of a cloth-draped pole, there apparently was nothing to keep him from falling. Yet he maintained the horizontal for a good four minutes, according to a South India tea planter named P. T. Plunkett, who wrote an enthralled account of the seance to the Illustrated London News. Common theories that the trick is done...
...from every angle. . . . I held a long stick, and from outside the circle passed the end of it over and under and around Subbayah's body. . . . I can vouch for the fact that he had no support whatsoever except for resting one hand lightly on top of the cloth-covered stick. He remained horizontal in the air for about four minutes. The tent was then put back. . . . Pat and I could see, through the thin wall of the tent, Subbayah still suspended in the air. After about a minute he appeared to sway, and then very slowly began...