Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edman's own philosophy is a humanist cocktail whose chief ingredients are Plato, Santayana and Manhattan. It is the last component that shines, like a pickled cherry, out of Philosopher's Holiday, a tall, watery glassful of reminiscences, anecdotes and essays devoted to "persons and places, many of them obscure, about which I have occasionally told my friends over a glass of sherry. . . ." Son of a shirt & blouse manufacturer, Philosopher Edman still lives in the neighborhood where he was born and brought up, a stone's throw from Columbia University. He has "spent a long life...
...through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known . . ." "Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed . . ." "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there may be also...
...Fibre glass, which is simply glass drawn superfine, was made in Germany as far back as 1878. But this German product was coarse, expensive, heavy, crudely made (example: a woman on a jacked-up bicycle would pedal the fibre onto the back wheel). Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. will make fibre by forcing white-hot glass through tiny orifices with a jet of steam. Resulting fibres are 2/10,000 of an inch in diameter. About 100 of them are twisted into a strand of yarn which looks and feels like wool...
Owens-Illinois and Corning are model parents for the new company. Owens, with total assets of $87,562,251, is the world's largest bottlemaker; their chemist, Games Slayter, started perfecting fibre glass seven years ago. Corning (assets and profits secret) has specialized in technical refinements; it was to Corning that Thomas Edison went in 1878 asking for a little glass bubble in which to put his incandescent filament...
...Corning and Owens glass fibres are already being used for various purposes by Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., General Electric Co., Westinghouse Electric Co., Holland Furnace Co., Frigidaire Corp., several others...