Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study of the properties of electrical insulation. As is well known, electrical engineering involves the use of three types of materials: conducting materials such as copper and aluminum; magnetic materials such as iron and steel from which magnets are made; and insulating materials such as rubber paper, cotton, oils, porcelain, and other similar materials which have the property of insulating the electric circuit. It is only by employing insulating materials that electric currents can be made to flow in the electric conductors. Otherwise, they would leak away, and it would therefore be difficult to transmit power any considerable distance...
...pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream was to raze the Woolworth Building...
...This cotton is used, the Department of Commerce hastily added, for "roofing material" and "wiping rags...
...head arteries they connected a pump which forced oxygenated blood to the amputated head, which, like John the Baptist's rested on a plate. The head's eyes moved. They closed when a strong light was flashed at them. The ears wiggled. The tongue ejected a piece of cotton soaked with acid, and swallowed a piece of cheese. For three and a half hours these natural reactions continued. By that time the venous blood became too heavy for the pump to oxygenate thoroughly. The dog's head began to yawn for the air which its lungs would have used...
...Cotton. Five New England cotton mills combined to attack in force their industry's depression. The mills: Valley Falls Co. of Albion, R. I; the Coventry Co. of Coventry, R. I.; Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Co. of Adams, Mass.; the Greylock Mills of North Adams, Mass.; and Fort Dummer Mills of Brattleboro, Vt. Capitalization: about...