Word: jell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Song Chin Woo, a fiftyish editor with a long record in the secret nationalist movement, is remaining aloof from parties while things jell. Cho Mansik, called the Gandhi of Korea, is a Christian church elder whom the Russians reportedly brought out of retirement to head the municipal government of industrial Pyengyang. As for the long-exiled government at Chung king, some Koreans would welcome it as a ready-made instrument for wielding political power. More likely, its members will return as private individuals...
...Says he: "The whole thing doesn't come through a radio. If you turn the radio on full blast in a live-walled room, something of the sound is there. But try as I will, you can never get it. Your throat becomes a bottleneck and the words jell in your mouth." Even so, his warcasting is the best to date...
...primer fact about U.S. political opinion in February 1944 was its fluidity: no political pectin had appeared to jell the opinion into a shape...
KFBB began in 1922 in an upstairs corner of the F. A. Buttrey general store in Havre. Old Man Buttrey, now one of Montana's biggest merchants, still sees to it that the station pays more attention to the facts of Montana life than to Kate Smith and Jell-0, for instance. This winter, so far, has been fairly mild, and distress calls infrequent. But a prairie fire broke out last week on the exposed ranch lands 35 miles south of Great Falls. At 4:30 p.m. KFBB called for volunteers. Three hours later the sheriff told the station...
...ever duplicated shellac's complicated chemical structure. But Chem ist C. G. Harford, of the Arthur D. Little laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., found that a resin named zein, derived from corn, behaved very much like shellac. A drawback, however, was that in solution zein had a tendency to jell. By an un disclosed chemical process, Harford finally succeeded in converting zein into a non-jelling resin. The result, Zinlac, not only has the quick-drying, elastic qualities of shellac, but is also more resistant to water and makes a better coat for metal...