Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such solid old-line Democrats as Carter Glass and Harry Byrd of Virginia stood together with Young Turks Minton of Indiana, Schwellenbach of Washington; the Old South's Cotton Ed Smith of South Carolina was ready to vote with the New South's Pepper of Florida. For the first time in many moons and many matters, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Utah's King and Thomas, were together. For in Washington this week were no pettifogging politicos seeking sewer projects. Every man was a Statesman...
...Tweeds and a good pipe and that sort of thing. He's handsome in an orthodox manner-- looks a bit like a collegiate clothes-model in Esquire. Fresh, the lady novelists would call him. He likes week-ends and New York, gets sentimental over the Tiger and a glass of beer...
When World War II threatened last August, Metcalf speeded up his tempo to a frenzy. He thought he might never get another chance. Before War began Sept. 1, the Metcalfs caught the first U. S.-bound boat. As the French Government again began to remove its irreplaceable stained glass panes and chances seemed even that the windows which had survived nearly 800 years of Europe's wars might not survive this one, Robert Metcalf's 14,000 slides were the only complete record of these Gothic treasures in existence. The slides will be housed at the Dayton (Ohio...
...blue crabs is that "struvite" (harmless crystals of magnesium ammonium phosphate which occur in nearly all canned fish products) is not found in eastern crabmeat. Many fish packers are troubled by struvite lawsuits, for their customers crunch the crystals between their teeth, think they have been chewing glass...
...heavy carbon apparatus is a tall glass cylinder with glass spirals inside. Heavy carbon can be separated from light carbon because it dissolves in hydrogen cyanide and sodium cyanide at slightly different rates. When sodium cyanide in water solution runs down the spiral and hydrogen cyanide as a gas flows upward, heavy carbon collects at the top of the apparatus. There were no leaks and the canaries warbled serenely...