Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famine and 1929 put Celotex into receivership. Reorganized under Dahlberg, Celotex acquired control of Certainteed Products Corp. (roofing, gypsum, plaster), began to merchandise many of the products required to build a house. Celotex makes Cemesto-a waterproof, fire-resistant building material 1½ inches thick, made of an inner core of Celotex faced with an asbestos cement-and with Cemesto hopes to mass-produce future U.S. housing...
...Electrical charges accumulate in clouds, positive at the top, negative on the bottom. A spark bursts through the air to another cloud or to the earth-lightning. First comes a faint leader stroke, then a huge discharge builds upward from the earth. The slender core (about the thickness of a finger) explodes into a column of fire much greater in diameter. As this heated air cools and contracts, other air rushes in to fill the space. This sudden disturbance makes the thunderclap...
With such a team covering the music front, I think you can be pretty sure that whenever, music touches the core of American life you will find the story in TIME-whether it happens in the Metropolitan Opera or on Beale Street-on either side of the musical railroad tracks...
...these words British Commando Officer Lieut. Colonel Robert Henriques describes the opening of the Commando raid which is the core of his unusual novel. As in his earlier No Arms, No Armour (TIME Jan. 15, 1940), Colonel Henriques' interest goes far beyond the surface mechanics of British army life...
...removal of these last of the Yardlings from the Yard will mark the first time since the opening of the Houses in 1930 that Freshmen have not lived in the core of the College. All of the Yard dormitories will now be turned over to the armed forces, although specific allotments have not yet been determined...