Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Major General Arturo de Echona and a ring of other potentates and sportsmen in Colombia's commercial centre, Barranquilla, stood keenly intent last week around a table covered with a red cloth. At the table Manhattan's marble champion Vinnie Sullivan, 13, who is making a South American tour, gave an exhibition of championship aggie-cracking...
...Some 170,000 bales of cloth made in India by British operated mills were piled up in Bombay last week because the Indian buyers had refused to take delivery...
...months ago the actual work of reconstruction seemed to be finished. Still the enormous grey cloth curtain which tor so many years had shut off dome and crossing from the nave hung in its usual place Disregarding formidable notices: PLEASE KEEP OUT! A bold Daily Mail reporter ducked under the curtain on a voyage of discovery. The great empty vault bare of scaffolding except for a few neglected planks, was complete, looked exactly as he had remembered it. Somewhere in the distance one lone carpenter was hammering slowly on a board...
Covered by a wet cloth at night, patted, scraped and moulded by day, a huge mass of modeler's clay on a draughting table in the offices of Todd, Robertson & Todd, Manhattan engineers, was slowly taking form last week as the preliminary sketch model of a gigantic group of buildings. Reporters realizing that this mass of clay will soon evolve into a $250,000,000 development, probably the largest, most important single architectural project ever undertaken in New York, clamored for latest details...
Light reflected from two samples of the same cloth placed in the machine, passes into the cell, gives an electrical impulse which is indicated by a galvanometre. The indicator hand is then set at zero, the unknown sample is introduced. If the hand again points to zero the match is perfect. If it varies to the right the second sample is too dark, to the left, too light. A variation of three calibrated scale divisions is considered a passable commercial match...