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...write anything less realistic, less straightforward than 'the cat sat on the mat,'" A. A. Milne (rhymes with kiln) once complained, "I am [called] whimsical." To Alan Alexander Milne, whimsical was the most "loathsome adjective," but it was one that he could never escape. No matter how many adult plays and novels he wrote, he was forever the biographer of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh. On starting one of his children's books. Critic Dorothy Parker once reported that on page five "Tonstant Weader fwowed up." Milne's other readers had an entirely different reaction...
...mixture of lime, silica, alumina and iron oxide, first made in 1824 by an English mason, Joseph Aspdin. The greyish color of the compound, cooked in a kiln, reminded him of stone quarried from the Isle of Portland off the British coast...
Piper's latest subjects are conventional enough: fountains and flowers, church courtyards, an island hotel, a village pump, a lime kiln. What made the paintings unmistakably Pipers were the colors and compositions. There were great swatches of bright yellow and bone white against russet and black, planes of dark shadows with fiery pinwheels of yellow, white and red. And the scenes had an air of amiable ruin: old fonts and arches decked in new flowers. In no time most of the 31 pictures were sold or spoken...
...busiest season since the war at Glenlivet Distillery, which stands on a brae overlooking a fertile Banffshire valley in the heart of the Highlands. Black peat smoke belched from the distillery's tall chimney, and the pungent odor of fermenting barley drifted from its odd-shaped kiln towers. Glenlivet's 50 workers, completing their biggest distilling season in seven years, processed the last batches of whisky before the annual summer shutdown. In the three summer months, the tumbling mountain springs which rise 1,200 feet above the glen go dry; then Glenlivet's men use the idle...
Quick Dryer. The Wood Electric Kiln Co. of North Berwick, Me. demonstrated a time-saving electronic kiln for drying green lumber. By using kiln-drying combined with high-frequency radiation, lumber in Wood's kiln can be dried in as little as 15 hours, instead of the seven to eight days needed in the present steam-heated type kilns...