Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent field for them in the search for a non-hydrous glue." Mechanical-minded Professor Koegel of the Karlsruhe Technical High School came forward with a new method of registering the authenticity of paintings: two wafer-thin sections are to be sawed from a steel cable, one inlaid in the painting, the other deposited in a central identification office. Microphotography will identify the adjacent surfaces of the cable...
...Vatican last week papal dignitaries claimed that with 800 telephones and 500 citizens the Papal State now has more telephones per capita than any other nation. In His Holiness' private study, they announced, electricians will soon set up a solid gold telephone of more than usual size, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, emblazoned with the papal arms on a great gold disc...
...Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid. U. S. Minister Curtis ran over from his legation. Ensued a weighty conference at the Presidential mansion...
...made many a film about wild places. Their most famed was Simba, a lion story that lost some interest because of its specialization. Now the Johnsons point their telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals...