Word: melt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slain tress, a foot or so of Drive and Charles; and the clock now brazenly and imperatively in full view, no doubt. The rest of his uprooted belongings, including the radio which squeals, were also set up in a New territory, embarrassed, trying to regain their Old composure, to melt dustily and uncomplainingly into their erstwhile demure obscurity. A New bed with an unfamiliar sag. A New bureau with all the knobs on the drawers. An utterly New and slightly terrifying room. . . a New Year...
...Lightweight Paul Runyan, whose tee shots carry no further than the average week-end golfer's, played the sort of game that breaks an opponent's spirit. Although outdriving him 40 to 50 yards on each hole, Snead watched his advantage melt around the greens where Runyan's game was hotter than the noonday sun. At the end of the morning round, Titan Snead was ready to throw his clubs in the nearby Delaware. He had not succeeded in winning a hole. Runyan was 5 up, had been leading ever since the third hole...
...only factor limiting the temperature in the new Harvard furnace is the melting point of the crucible. The best crucibles obtainable at present are made of tantalum, lined with thorium oxide. Both substances melt at about 5000 degrees Fahrenheit...
...experimental tests Dr. Hultgren has successfully molted iridium at 4230 degrees Fahrenheit; platinum at 3200 degrees; and pallodium at 2790 degrees. Ruthenium was heated to 440 degrees Fahrenheit and "sintered" a little but did no melt...
...head and body out of the way by a frantic effort. But he also knows he is certain to lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like a fog. Anyhow, why die by inches? Why this flurry of self-preservation at such a cost? No, 'tis better to die there calmly--to be run over in one quick piece--with quiet dignity to undergo the roller and come out on the other side a mere blob...