Word: enamels
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...called Bonus Army . . . proceeded from personal desire and was clothed with unwarranted and unnecessary arbitrariness and harshness.] has devised a new decoration for those serving on the General Staff of which he is chief. It consists of the coat of arms of the U. S. superimposed on a blue enamel star. . . . NOTE: General MacArthur is to retire soon. [General: Meaning that plaintiff designed a decoration for his personal delectation and use at an early date...
...first floor of Manhattan's dingy West Side Court, busiest in the city, is a dungeon-like room with high dirty windows. A long table, two incredibly battered desks, a telephone booth and a chipped enamel cuspidor make up its office equipment. Around the walls are photographs of unidentified prizefighters and film actresses, a framed obituary of Variety's late Slangster Jack Conway, a yellowed clipping of a newspaper sermon entitled "Success," a picture of a nude dancer with a large ostrich-plume fan, inscribed: ''To the reporters of West Side Court, gratefully and sincerely, Sally...
...King Edward sent a snuff box of blue and gold enamel with his miniature on it. The Kaiser sent a bracelet set with a miniature of himself, a smaller twin of the one he had given me for christening the Meteor. The only difference was in the uniform that he had on, and that the gold was lighter and the diamonds around the miniature smaller in the one that I got for getting married. The present from the King of Italy was a mosaic table, so large and heavy that I have never been able...
...sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly. Tooth Crystals. X-ray analysis showed J. Thewlis a close analogy between the structure of tooth enamel and the fertilizing mineral apatite. He hopes that further study will show how to prevent tooth decay. Enamel and apatite consist of fibres made up of hexagonal crystals in which precisely the same elements (calcium, oxygen, phosphorus) have precisely the same atomic arrangement. In tooth enamel some of the fibre...
...million. Well water on outlying farms, where the children with perfect teeth lived, contained only a trace of fluorine. So Oakley at some expense dug new community wells where fluorine measured no more than one-half part to a million. Then parents waited to see how the enamel looked on the second teeth of children who drank the untainted water. In the current Journal of the American Dental Association Dr. McKay reported what little Oakley has been rejoicing over. No child born after the water change has mottled teeth. Every child whose second teeth had begun to form before...