Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cellulose nitrate was the first binder used; actinic rays in sunshine turned this disagreeably brown. Cellulose acetate as a binder and actinic-filtering glass stopped the discoloration. But the glass was hard and, though it did not fly into lacerating fragments, a human head striking it fared badly. Moreover, it became brittle in cold weather. The new glass is not only soft for safety but keeps its effectiveness at temperatures around zero...
...Progressives League on March 4, 1913, while Woodrow Wilson was being inaugurated President after outrunning Bull Mooser Roosevelt and Republican William Howard Taft. Said Teddy to the young Bull Moosers with unsquelched heartiness and bite: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard...
...making a picture called No Man of Her Own. Gable was then a novice leading man, only four years removed from the career of bumming, lumberjacking and cheap stock company acting that had preceded his debut on Broadway in Machinal. Carole Lombard was an ex-Mack Sennett comedienne trying hard to make a reputation as a serious actress. Both were married. Gable's wife was a well-to-do Texas widow ten years his senior, whom he had married the year before, after divorcing a dramatic coach. Lombard's husband was Actor William Powell. At this first meeting...
...Abbott landed with the Federal Art Project in 1935. A direct girl who still talks harsh Ohio, still wears a Left Bank haircut and beret, she confesses to being scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...
...ounce for domestic silver, 43? for foreign silver), a substantial subsidy which has stimulated silver production the world around, driven China off the silver standard. Author Leavens speculates on what would have happened if this law had never passed, concludes that silver miners would have had a hard time, that the price would have fallen sharply, but that eventually a new and satisfactory equilibrium would have been established...