Word: filteration
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unaffected by 70% nitric, full-strength hydrochloric acids, or by most other acids and alkalis, Vinyon aims to oust cotton and wool from important industrial filter uses...
...oscillations that he leaves no fixed conception. Perhaps this flexibility of Ted's personality was preconceived in Mr. Laughton's mind. If so, he over-emphasized the flexibility. Or perhaps, because of the strain of producing the picture, he has unconsciously let too much of the self-assured Producer filter into his portrayal of the lazy and dissolute Ted. Yet despite the defects of Laughton's acting, his skill in the creation of a distinguished production show that he has kept his place as one of the top-notch men in present-day moviedom...
...Investments quoted the stock of the New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Co., sixth largest bank in Jersey City, at $974 a share instead of $9. The bank's president, Walter Pennett Gardner, was formerly judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Last fortnight word began to filter about Jersey City that these were not the only errors involved in the bank's history...
Fiberglas will not yet make dresses; they would be too heavy. But since it is non-inflammable and can take color (asbestos cannot), it is well suited for curtains, rugs, hangings. For house insulation it is lighter than rock wool. For air conditioning it makes a fibrous filter which scours air of dirt and moisture. For wire insulation it is more compact, sometimes more economical than cotton, which must be made non-inflammable or used with rubber...
...hill slopes-but high-mountain firs and redwoods, giants which had already lived through many centuries. They formed an auditorium with a roof far above supported by gigantic, perfectly shaped pillars, widely spaced so that one could see far back into the endless gloom. Occasionally sharply defined sunbeams would filter down to the bare forest floor, but neither they nor the few mountain birds whose liquid piping echoed round about could disturb the sepulchral peace. There was also a sepulchral chill...