Word: melt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money in the publishing business, they had best put it in charge of an experienced publisher. Thus it was that the two groups found themselves this week negotiating a deal with astute President William Bishop Warner of The McCall Co. whereby they would put up more money, he would melt together the stalled plow and the superfluous hammer, publish the result under McCall management...
...Melt copper with tin and you get bronze, probably the oldest, certainly one of the most useful alloys in the world. Last week the Albright Art Gallery of Buffalo popped into the spotlight with an exhibition illustrating the history of bronze-casting from about 3000 B.C. to the 20th Century. Eschewing such utilitarian objects as Roman swords, motorboat propellers and bank tellers' cages, the gallery has assembled a collection of 173 statuettes, all of them of first rank, only one (a Degas figurine) the property of the Albright Art Gallery. Most liberal lenders were New York's Metropolitan...
...does not melt to a liquid but sublimes directly from the solid state to vapor. When this takes place under confinement, the vapor is formed at high pressure.* Everts and two associates designed a power unit consisting of two small tanks containing 25 Ib. each of dry ice. Sublimed, this delivers a pressure of 1,000 Ib. per sq. in., which is stepped down by control valves to 250 Ib. before being applied to the water hose. Last week
...people in Third Act in Venice, readers might have found some ordinary, others downright unlikable. might have decided their story was a highly colored mess. Thanks to Author Thompson's restless skill, however, it emerges from dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste for carrion. In short, Sir Francis was a double-lifer...
...preliminary squadron of nine German battle planes had come thundering from the direction of Berlin to wheel around the spires of Cologne Cathedral and then melt away again into the blue of the East. Not a word would any Rhineland official say to confirm the report that German soldiers were really coming, but since 5 a. m. grapevine rumor had been spreading through Cologne, making blue German eyes sparkle and apple cheeks flush brighter...