Word: corking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wide-eyed children clambered excitedly through one of the strangest houses ever built. It is a poured-stone structure on the foundations of an old cement kiln. Its sparkling roof, white as sugar icing, is decorated by a frieze of pink and blue imitation candy hearts. Huge cookies (of cork) are set in the giddily striped and curlicued walls. A six-foot painted knight in gaudy armor on a painted horse spins from a turret as a weather vane. A gigantic black cat arches his cast stone back on the top of a sugar-stick minaret. A trained seal...
...cotton. Don Alejandro Padilla y Bell, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S., publicly complained that his country would be hardest hit by the new tariff, cited the fact that out of 81% exports to the U. S., the duty on 42 of them would be upped, including cork, olives, onions, almonds, peppers and imitation pearls. Swiss watchmakers posted throughout their country such notices as: "ONE FOR ALL. ALL FOR ONE. ... We ask all manufacturers, craftsmen, merchants and consumers to banish ... all merchandise of U. S. origin...
...TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Straw, virtually valueless as a fertilizer. has always been a problem. Farmers burn a large percentage of the 50 million tons produced each year. Some is being used (250.000 tons) to produce an insulating board whose heat conductivity is comparable to balsa wood and cork. Also from straw an artificial lumber will soon be produced which will have tensile strength of hickory. The current issue of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry predicts that this ''straw'' lumber will soon be in plentiful production and use. Thus plains regions, where trees are scarce and lumber...
National Campaign for a Specific Product ($2,000)-won by Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Corp. (Chicago), for a campaign of Armstrong's Linoleum floors (Armstrong, Cork...
...body must struggle to throw off heat. The harder it struggles, the harder the heart must work. The pulse rate indicates the heart efforts, and thus the body efforts. High pulse rate is an index of unwise, inefficient overexertion. Dr. McConnell found that when his subjects in the cork-lined test room developed a pulse of 135 a minute, they complained of discomfort. Their heads ached, their hearts palpitated. A metallic taste came into their mouths. They could speak only with effort. At 160 pulses a minute they felt as though they were "floating on air" and were...