Word: corking
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...Connell reached these conclusions with engineering finesse. He placed men and women in a special cork-lined heat chamber built by the U. S. Bureau of Mines and operated jointly with the American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers. While the specimens rested and worked in still and moving air he made observations...
...prize of $2,000 for a national campaign for a specific product was won by Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborn, Inc., New York. The campaign which they had conducted was that of Armstrong's, Linoleum Floors, a product of the Armstrong Cork Company...
Waller, a native of County Cork, Ireland, has had a distinguished career as Secretary of the League of Nations Society of Ireland, during which time he has been present at various Congresses of the Federation of the League of Nations Societies all over Europe, as well as at the Assembly itself...
...Vivian scooped up the loose ends of wire, held them tightly together in one hand. An arc burned his hand. To close the arc he squeezed harder. The harder he squeezed, the more current leaked into his arm, made it jerk crazily. Had he not been standing on a cork-insulated floor, had he not kept clear of a well-grounded duct a few inches from his foot, the 220-volt current would have killed...
...lowered. In their oldest clothes hilarious passengers who had never bisected the Equator before, trooped from bar to boat deck. Up the boarding ladder came His Majesty King Neptune, shrouded in whiskers, accompanied by his Queen, his Barber, the members of his Court, all liberally smeared with burnt cork...