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Word: foiling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manufacture Eskimo Pie. For every dozen of these pies they made-and at the height of Eskimo Pie popularity 2,000,000 were sold daily-they paid Russell Stover and Christian K. Nelson a nickel. These men grew rich-income $1,000,000 yearly. Then the U. S. Foil Co. which manufactures wrappings for can- dies and small articles, bought control of their company and they became contented security holders in the now $25,000,000 corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cold Pie | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...metal cup about the cathode, they raced off down the 12-inch exit passage of the tube until, when they reached the "window," they were going some 150,000 m.p.s. (four-fifths the speed of light). Their volume was virtually undiminished as they shot through the thin nickel foil and out into heavy, molecular air, where their effects were at once visible and startling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cathode Rays | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...insistently needs tin for bronzes, solders, collapsible tubes, pewter, babbitt and other bearing metals, type and brittania metals, tin foil for wrappings, soda fountain and chemical laboratory pipes, cans and boxes, white enamel, making silks heavy, mordants in dyeing textiles and printing calicoes. For these uses, this country last year imported 50% (76,646 long tons, value $95,121,000) of the total world supply of tin. This was an increase of nearly 20% over 1924 imports, whereas the world supply increased only 2% over that of 1924. On Dec. 31, 1925, there were only 2,654 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tin | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...helper who wrote out the lines. To properly write the lines of the song, the composer had to experience the inspirational cesiasy of the bard just as the bard needed some consciousness of craff as he sang. This refutes those who say that long and careful foil is foreign to poetry; through the mind of the poet as he works over his lines, rewriting and correcting, there is a subconscious current of his inspiration ever buoying him up. Just as the song of the Molpe was the product of inspiration and craftsmanship, so have all the great poems come from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE MOLPE" IS TOPIC OF SECOND MURRAY TALK | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

...following year that he accomplished the by no means inconsiderable feat of winning the 440 and the 880 and placing second in the mile his own efforts being sufficient to give the title to Columbia. He has won Olympic honors with the epee and the foil, but it is with spiked shoes that he will perform this afternoon, when he will appear on the Stadium cinders in a special half-mile race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Time Iron Men Tell of Days When Hurdles Were Hurdles | 5/29/1926 | See Source »

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