Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossed Fingers. There were some drawbacks to the fine weather. German floodwaters had put the Neckar, Weser and Ruhr canals out of business and closed the Rhine's Düsseldorf bridge. In Venice, the Adriatic had risen to cover St. Mark's Square and the Rialto. Torrential rains and melting snow in the mountains of France had sent Nancy, Epinal and Metz their worst floods in more than a century. In the Vosges 33 bridges were washed out. And with a month of winter still to come, there was always the chance of late frosts that might...
...natural pride in their independence has withheld this move as a last resort, and the red coats have tied definite conditions to their request. Aware of the handicapping features of total support, the Band is asking only for a sum to cover its Cornell and Princeton trips, predicting that record sales and concert incomes will take care of home expenses. Asking for partial aid permits them to retain some semblance of extra-curricular freedom...
Hair Oil & Aluminum. The polished surface of the mirror was transparent glass, still to be covered with a reflecting film of aluminum. Before this could be done, the glass had to be cleaned perfectly. The trick was to cover the surface with a "monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
...space is really curved, then the universe must be "finite," of limited (though perhaps expanding) size'. One "model of the universe" (Einstein's) gives the "circumference of space" (the path which a beam of light would cover as it circles around finite space and back to its starting place) as about 300 billion lightyears...
...faintly embarrassed answer was that the best of them were gone. The Russians had shipped 1,695 masterpieces home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...