Word: corking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long and far from simple annals of wrestling, few careers are more remarkable than that of a 224-lb. oddity from Ballydehob, County Cork, named Danno O'Mahoney. A wrestling scout in Dublin on other business last autumn discovered O'Mahoney serving as a soldier in the Free State Army, brought him to the U. S., enlisted him as a member of the famed troupe of professional wrestlers...
...Italian soldiers and workers sleep stark naked in the streets to escape the heat; others toil in a blistering sun without cork helmets and still others beg money from Arab sailors to buy food, which they are unable to buy with their meager...
Having set up his detector, Dr. Haggard nipped a clove of garlic, chewed and swallowed one-twentieth of an ounce. He waited five minutes, took the glass tube in his mouth, exhaled one-tenth pint of air. Then he stuck his tongue into the tube to cork it, took a breath, exhaled again into the apparatus. This procedure he repeated until the gas meter indicated that he had breathed and exhaled five quarts of air. Of the one-twentieth of an ounce of garlic which Dr. Haggard had chewed and swallowed, every quart of air he exhaled carried away only...
Armstrong Cork...
...panels, are bolted together with long strips of aluminum which give a modernistic effect to the exterior. The panels, 2¼in. thick, consist of two layers of mixed cement and asbestos. Between the layers is an insulating substance which looks like burnt cork and is termite-proof, fireproof. The outside of the house is a light grey, needs no paint. Extra rooms can be added from time to time by "unbuttoning" one outside wall...