Word: herculeses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Looking ahead, many a company saw a race to keep up with expanding markets. Commonwealth Edison Co. announced a five-year $600 million construction program. Hercules Powder planned a $10 million plant at Parlin, N.J., to be completed next year, for production of a new type of polyethylene; this will...
Why have the arts taken such a dismal turn? Graves has no doubt of the answer: vainglorious man is paying the penalty for having scorned the Goddess of All Things. All poetry worthy of the name, he believes, is in essence a variation on "the single grand theme"-man'...
Self-Solder. For the amateur solderer the Hercules Chemical Co. of New York City put on the market Swif, a regular tin-lead solder in a plastic tube. The do-it-yourselfer squeezes on Swif as he would toothpaste, then seals the joint with heat from a match, cigarette lighter...
Utamaro (1753-1806) has been called one of the most refined printmakers who ever lived, and damned as a decadent who started Ukiyo-e on its downward course. (The censure may stem from the fact that he spent at least a thousand nights in the Yoshiwara, and that the girls...
CONQUEST BY MAN (455 pp.)-Paul Herrmann-Harper ($6). This is a German scholar's fascinating survey of travel and discovery before Columbus. Author Herrmann has pulled together all sorts of odd bits of learned lore to show that "the world has been since early times almost as great...