Word: foams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary glass and can easily be sawed, drilled or shaped without chipping or shattering. To make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first big industrial use as a replacement for the cork linings of refrigerators. Today the industrial use of glass is making strides comparable to those of aluminum in the past...
Once, like all pixies, the gremlins lived in hollow banks beside rivers and deep pools. Then some of them moved to crags near the seashore and lived on pancakes made of yellow tide-foam. Now they have moved into the air. Last week they were having the time of their lives flying all over the North Atlantic, Britain and Germany in R.A.F. and U.S. planes...
...into a growl. For almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake of 1940 were driven into the streets by a frightening temblor...
...shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe out of the waves...
...Milwaukee lead clouds hung over the city, blotting out the sun. A raw wind whipped in from the south, bringing whitecaps and foam on Lake Michigan, chilling the children who wandered with their parents down Wisconsin Avenue to look at the Christmas toys in the windows of the department stores. In Chicago it was cold and overcast with a threat of snow which began as night fell...