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Word: coalbin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phew! In Stockbridge, Mass., Mrs. John F. Decker argued that no woman should be expected to put up with a man who kept six skunks in the coalbin. She got the divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

With Ash Can & Grater. Lithium's industrial champion is chunky, soft-spoken Harold J. Ness, who began experimenting with the restless metal during the depression, when his work as a metallurgist with a forging company slackened. His first laboratory was his coalbin, and the first lithium furnace was made from ash cans. The lithium was powdered with a common kitchen cheese grater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Restless Metal | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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