Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city council of Lynchburg, Va., about to name a new WPA-built stadium for Senator Carter Glass, recalled his distaste for New Deal spending, gave him a gold medal instead...
...chemist was astonished. He had put his finger on a whitish deposit covering the inside of a glass vessel not much bigger than a thimble. He expected this substance to crumble at his touch. Instead, it came out intact, like a smooth, tough vellum paper. It stood on his desk, forming a model of the vessel which it had lined...
...years before the Civil War, Amory Houghton invested his money in a glass factory at Somerville, Mass. Eleven years before the turn of the century Michael Owens, tired of blowing glass with his lungs, invented a machine to do it for him. From Houghton's investment grew Corning Glass Works; from Owens' invention, Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Last week, after seven years' experimenting, these two famed oldsters fostered a wonder-child-Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., the first U. S. glass company devoted to the manufacture of textiles...
Holding aloft the costly ostensorium, which in a glass clip contained the Sacred Host-to Catholics the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ-Cardinal Mundelein gave to the 65,000 faithful the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament as lights in the Park blinked out and thousands of candles sprang into flickering glow. For a mercy, the rain held...
...speed with which they were slaughtered was no less fabulous than their flights. (In New York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised, apricot-breasted model for some future monument to vanished U. S. frontiers, squandered U. S. resources...