Word: fabrication
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...gelatin-latex treated cotton fabric, developed by Goodyear-Zeppelin for gas cells to take the place of goldbeater's skin (intestine of cattle) heretofore used in dirigibles. (To supply the Akron, the intestines of 1,500,000 cattle would have been required...
...Governor Long: "There is agitation down this way that we should enlarge our use of cotton goods and some of we more or less super-cotton patriots, including fellows like myself who have picked cotton 16 long hours a day for 35? are having stationery printed on this cotton fabric. I think it is a very neat and dignified looking stationery. It is permanent." Manufacturer of Governor Long's cotton writing paper is Unitex Co. of Greenville, S. C. Price...
Modesty. Teachers are excessively modest. "At present they fit so noiselessly into the social and political fabric that the public does not hear the sound of the spindle and the loom." (Dr. Sutton...
...This exquisite new fabric, Madame? if I had shown it to you last year you would have said 'Why, Mr. Worth, you are perfectly a fool...
...Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure. "The flight should not have been undertaken in existing...