Word: melt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into very thin slices 1 onion, 1 small carrot, 1 stick of celery. Melt 1 oz. butter in a stewpan and fry with vegetables for a few minutes without browning. Add 2½ lb. tomatoes, cut into slices, and cook for a few more minutes. Add 2 pints of water, small clove of garlic and bunch of herbs...
...today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other heavy elements 4,000 miles in diameter surrounded by a rocky shell 2,000 miles thick. As eons pass, "the persistent release of atomic forces continue, and will continue to supply heat and melt the surrounding shell with the result that Mother Earth may eventually take her place among the stars...
...baseball game began soon afterwards with a cold wind blowing and the crowd shivering. After the first few innings, the people began to melt away and a crowd which had been capacity at the first of the game soon dwindled to a mere nothing...
Patent No. 2,000,000 is for an "improvement for pneumatic tires for railroad cars."* Inventor Ledwinka thinks very little of it. Said he: ''Rubber at high speeds builds up a tremendous heat, enough to blow out the tube, or in solid tires to melt them internally. We were forced recently to replace pneumatic tires with metal wheels on a train we shipped to Texas." Budd Co. will develop his railroad tire, said he, "to meet competition...
...highways, finest in the world, are little better than Siberia's in dead of winter. That something should be done about it was suggested last week by John R. Adams, Detroit adman. His suggestion: Lay sheet steel surfacing on concrete imbedded with electrical heating units to melt ice & snow. Adman Adams believes his heated highways will be here...