Word: fibrousness
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...glasslike fragments do not dissolve in the moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock driller dies of silicosis, tuberculosis, or both...
...considers a combination in restraint of trade and which he wants broken up. His reasons: Three companies-Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., Quebec Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (a subsidiary of Philip Carey Mfg. Co. of Ohio) and the Keasby Mattison-control 80% of the world's supply of that fibrous-like rock called asbestos; those companies agreed to sell all their output for five years to one of Mr. Dillon's smart young men, duVal R. Goldthwaite; he made purchasing contracts with Johns-Manville Co. Ltd., and Philip Carey Mfg. Co. who manufacture most...
Like famed Chauncey Mitchell Depew, another survivor of a fibrous generation of railroad men, Marvin Hughitt was bothered by newsmongers because he continued to go to his office every day, despite the fact that he had reached an age never attained by less sturdy toilers. When, recently, he was asked by a coy cub reporter what advice he had to give the younger generation, Marvin Hughitt took thought for a moment. Then he replied: "Why, none...
...Story. "Twenty-two sat down to dinner on a Thanksgiving afternoon at four, 1903, in the House on Sycamore Street." These were the sons and daughters, the grandsons and granddaughters of Mathilda Schuyler and the Old Gentleman, her husband. It was this coarse, fibrous old man who, at the end of dinner, told the family which he had planted so securely in fertile Ohio: "Your mother, children, God bless her, is going to have a baby...
...decorum. More than that, this book is one of the few important literary works which has come out of Canada in many a year. The central figure of the story,. Alayne, a participant of a more effete civilization, shares the reader's interest and bewilderment at the gnarled fibrous character of old Adeline, who towers over the book like a huge shadowy tree, leaves stirring in the wind, roots stirring in the tight, tough soil...