Word: layering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week angry Nazis joined the French police in hunting the wreath layer, described as "one of the most active De Gaullist agents" in Caen. Nazi-controlled Paris-soir said he was an Englishman, Jean Hopper, whose mother, wife and daughter are in a concentration camp...
...point-blank range of 100 yards. From A.C.F. armor placed at a sloping angle to the line of fire, the shells bounced without making a dent. When they were fired smack into plates at a flat right-angle to the gun, the shells penetrated the first layer of armor, stuck harmlessly in the rear layer...
...tipping his cocked hat to admirers and gayly swinging a useless cane. As he hustles to the platform he appears flustered about the coming performance. He dumps out a stack or books and papers on the table and more or less tears of his monotonous black cloaking, revealing another layer of rumpled blackness. The first communication to the audience may be anything from a grin to an inimitable gargle -- one of those special Nock guttural noises denoting pause and hesitancy. Then a stream of words buried from comprehension by three factors: their own weightiness, the accent and the moustache. Gaining...
Frazer himself thought that his books contained "a melancholy record of human error and folly." One thing he was sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...
...attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...