Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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concentrated over there, in an increasingly thick and crammed vortex, as when a magnet hidden under a sheet of paper attracts iron filings, making patterns that become darker one moment, lighter the next, and in the end dissolve and leave on the white page a speckling of scattered fragments...
Artifacts from prehistoric and historic cultures including Europe's Paleolithic and Iron Age cultures are housed here. Currently, the Peabody is showing exhibits of North American Indian basketry, Maya Culture, and the American Southwest. There is also a room of Melanesian artifacts...
...Good. I think I can do something for you. Sit down." Willson transformed Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson and secured him an apprenticeship in one of the biggest film factories, Universal Pictures. Fighter Squadron (1948) was his first film. During the next six years, 25 others followed, like The Iron Man and Air Cadet. The studio was his school. By the time his first big picture, The Magnificent Obsession, came along in 1954, he was able to establish his film personality: steady, likable, a man among...
...California, for example, found that "pickling acid," which is needed in metal-processing plants to remove scale, could be mixed with zinc sulfate and used as a soil additive in citrus orchards, or mixed with air-filtered dust from scrap-steel plants to permit profitable recovery of zinc-iron compounds. Others have found that spent fluid from the manufacture of semiconductors could be used to refine old crankcase oil, helping to eliminate two disposal problems for the price...
...saved the survivors. He then installed these superbugs in a brand new $10 million water-treatment plant, putting billions of them on each of the 48 rotating disks that make up the plant's main processing unit. Because the bacteria possess a sticky body surface, they pick up zinc, iron and other metals in the water as it passes over the plates. They also eat the cyanide that once threatened to kill the waterway's marine life. Barely a year ago, the creek was too toxic for trout, but now they seem to be thriving...