Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge executed an order raising the tariff on sodium silicofluoride from 25% of its foreign value to 25% of its market value in the U. S. The chemical is used for acid rinses in laundries and for manufacturing enamel ware and opalescent glass. The U. S. consumption is some 5,000,000 lbs. per annum, of which about half is imported, mainly from Denmark...
...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...
...senism is practiced by leading statesmen of the present Chinese Nationalist State as equivalent to a religion. Similarly the statesmen of Soviet Russia repose their faith in Leninism. The embalmed corpses of Dr. Sun and Nikolai Lenin are preserved in their glass-topped cases near Peking and at Moscow; and are periodically adored as the elements from which sprang, respectively, Chinese Nationalism and Russian Sovietism...
...Albany, in the last week before Notification, went the Democracy's champion Drys-Glass from Virginia, Daniels from North Carolina, George from Georgia, Walsh from Montana. Would they, could they, induce the Nominee not to insist again, in his acceptance speech, upon modification of Prohibition...
Important body changes have been made in the Chrysler 65 and 75, making them leaner of line, cathedral-like. The hoods are higher; the windshields are made of non-shatterable glass (Triplex...