Word: layering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rachmaninoff played at his first concert (with the New York Philharmonic) since he burned the forefinger of his right hand. To protect his fingers from cracking, he had put on collodion, a bandage. Then he lit a cigaret. When he ripped off the burning bandage, he ripped off a layer of the "new skin," a layer of real skin, postponed a tour to Dallas and Chicago...
...mine layer Oglala, an old passenger ship converted during World...
...soil at Recife is nearly pure sand, must be watered down to keep it from blowing away. From a nearby quarry clay is hauled, spread over the sand base in a six-inch layer. Over this go two three-inch layers of soil stabilization mixture. The result is equivalent to good cement, but is cheap, quick and resistant to the equatorial...
Washington newshawks, case-hardened characters who measure a public man by the probable length of his obituary, last week sentimentally chipped in $7, bought a seven-pound, four-layer White Mountain cake topped with white, pink and green icing, with 21 large pink candles rakishly atilt in pink rosebud holders...
Eastman's new method produces a print in one operation. Main principle: a triple coating of sensitive chemicals on the surface to be printed, each layer of chemicals picking up a different set of colors from the transparencies. Final prints are not on paper but on a sort of celluloid, are at present processed-like home movies in color-only at Eastman's laboratories...