Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zein. The director of the Corn Industries Research Foundation, Chemist Harry Everett Barnard, urged chemists to invent uses for zein, a protein left over as a by-product from the corn-refining industry. Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge industrial chemist, is already experimenting. Zein resembles cellulose and cellulose derivatives in certain ways. It can be mixed with them, as in plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks...
James Rennie (Alien Corn) comes on the stage, a picture of self-confidence, as Inspector Ellery, recognizable as Author King's capable, dinner-coated stock character Lieut. Valcour. Inspector Ellery & staff turn the theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with...
After a week the deer had grown accustomed to being gaped at, was eating the sweet corn and drinking the water lowered daily from the cliff, sleeping on a bale of hay. Hemlock branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly...
...Ortonville, Minn, harvest festival last year Mrs. L. W. Lindstrom munched hard for the women's corn-eating championship, finished second to Pauline Lewis who set a women's record of 25 ears. Ed ("Korn King") Kottwitz won the men's championship with a world's record of 37 ears. Last week at the festival, with two dozen waitresses rushing supplies from steaming boilers chocked with Golden Bantam corn, Mrs. Lindstrom, 71 and every tooth her own, beat Pauline Lewis, 22, by one ear with a new women's record of 45 ears. Ed Kottwitz...
...Stockbroker David Ricardo retired from the London Stock Exchange in 1797 with a fat fortune, devoted himself to economics, wrote Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock, is chiefly famed for transmitting Adam Smith's laisscz fairc philosophy to John Stuart Mill...