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Word: melt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want our American missionaries to return home and there to melt up all the heavy cannon to cast a statue of peace, to be erected, say, at the entrance to the Golden Gate. (Signed) TOKUTOMI KENJIRO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mote | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

...tery, having the rigor and brilliance of glass, the lustre of amber from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base, melt. It is used in pipe stems, fountain pens, billiard balls, telephone fixtures, cas- tanets, radiator caps, etc. In liquid form, it is a varnish. Jellied, it is a glue. Those familiar with its possibilities claim that in a few years it will be embodied in every mechanical facility of modern civilization. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Ithaca | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole white contingent. Nine or ten thousand natives are acting on his advice when an American gunboat hears the rumpus, drops a shell in the courtyard of the besieged chateau, details a platoon of marines. The masses of natives melt. The chateau, the mines, the people are saved. To make it completely safe for 100% Americanism, the Princess, foregoing her regal alliances, decides that plain Mrs. Hollingsworth Chase is good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 24, 1923 | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

Commissioner Wallis, formerly in charge of Ellis Island, agreed with the British Ambassador, saying: " Ellis Island would melt a heart of granite. It is literally a vale of tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Animadversion | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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