Word: foams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since World War II began, such emergencies have become routine for Philadelphia's National Foam System, Inc. Its stocky, energetic president, Fisher Longstreth Boyd, 57, rolls out of bed in the bleaker hours like any fireman to dispatch his fire-fighting foam, which the Navy calls "bean soup," to fight fires around the globe...
...Nolan was a pale-faced, bucktoothed youngster of 23 when he scudded into Eire's Civil Service on a foam of brilliant answers to such questions as "How far is the earth from the moon?" Born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone, he had lived until then without notable incident save a visit to Germany...
...folding, prefabricated house, so light (three tons) and compact that it can be moved from place to place on a truck trailer. Its chief feature is a new insulating material called Plastic Foam, which looks like dry ice, weighs only a tenth as much as rock wool or cork board, is fireproof, waterproof, soundproof. The house, tele scoped to 8 ft. wide on the road, pulls out to 15 ft. to provide two bedrooms, has a small living room and kitchen, costs $1,800 complete with furniture...
Both literature and life (in which Upton Sinclair is more warmly interested) are crueler and more disenchanted than he knows. The time may come when Upton Sinclair's novel and history will foam down the homestretch neck & neck. Meanwhile, charging along a few lengths behind history (this volume ends in 1937), calling the fouls in a loud, clear voice, and always polite to his horse, Upton Sinclair is one of his century's most gallant losers...
...bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...