Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dunk my cracker in a glass of milk; not only does this make the cracker tastier, but it aids in softening the fingernails prior to biting them...
...craft, including Matthews' 42-ft., double-cabin cruiser at $53,000, and Wheeler's 43-ft., flying-bridge sedan at $55,000. But, more than ever, boat builders emphasized economy to lure more middle-income families, made wider use of low-cost, low-upkeep plastics and fiber glass. The percentage of fiberglass craft in the show has doubled since 1957; this year 150 of the 430 vessels were of fiber glass...
Sears, Roebuck promoted a package of a 12-ft. fiber-glass or aluminum boat, 7½h.p. outboard engine and 600-lb. -capacity auto trailer. Price: $477, with only $48 down. Rhode Island's Pearson Corp. showed off its 28-ft., six-berth auxiliary sloop, Peerless Triton, priced at $9,750, and Cape Cod Shipbuilding exhibited its 23-ft. sloop-rigged Marlin cruising sailboat, which has done well in midget ocean-racing. For those who want to use boats as homes, Evinrude motors displayed a prototype expand-at-will, fiberglass, aluminum and wood houseboat that floats on pontoons...
...Defective human genes, lab-mixed with healthy genetic material, may some day be artificially inseminated to produce normal individuals, said Johns Hopkins Biologist Bentley Glass in a Michigan State University lecture. Children's sex may one day be pre-ordered by a lab device that electrically separates the two types of sperm. "The great advances already made," said Glass, "suggest other fascinating possibilities of producing and modifying human genetic material...
...minded military men who hope some day to land on the moon and do not like the idea of sinking into a mile of loose dust. Their fears were calmed by simple tests made in the laboratories of their contractors. North American Aviation, Inc., for instance, shows two sealed glass tubes. One of them contains air as well as fine dust, and a small steel ball sinks deeply below the surface. The other has a vacuum. The dust particles, no longer lubricated by air between them, pack tightly and prevent the ball from sinking. On the airless moon...