Word: kiln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agnes was put to work in a lime kiln . . . Ida and Margret . . . worked in a peat field . . . Elli worked in a coal mine . . . Emma was put to work in a tile factory. All the women stated that a specific amount of work known as the 'norm' had to be done each day ... In most cases good work guaranteed better food. All the women said that they were worked to their utmost capacity...
...First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered lemons or limes included in the daily diet on British ships. Soon British sailors and then the whole British people became known as "limeys." "Limey" bears no etymological relation to "Blimey," or to Limehouse, a London dock district named for an old lime kiln, or oast...
...tree, filled it with birds imported from the U.S. There Artist Doughty spends months studying her birds, sketching poses, shaping preliminary models. Then, in a single intense day of disciplined haste, a final image is made. Because porcelain products shrink to one-third model-size when fired in the kiln (the temperature goes as high as 1,200° F.), they must be painstakingly pre-sized. Because thin, delicate clay shapes (such as flower petals) can stand less heat than heavier parts, porcelain models as variable as the Doughty birds are baked by a complicated shifting of heavy and light...
Miss Doughty has a kiln of her own, but her birds are now kiln-fired at Britain's Royal Worcester Porcelain Co., where reproductions are made in limited editions. So highly does Royal Worcester rate Miss Doughty's work that it has originated a new mark, a gold W, to stamp them with...
...brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering's sake. Respectfulness everywhere chaperones audacity...