Word: melts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metallurgy department students compain that they are forced because of inadequate facilities is Rotch, to trek to the Watertown Arsenal, where they can use the government's plant. The Engineering School furnaces, they complained, would not melt the metal, and according to one there was a lone calibrated graduate for measuring materials. The accuracy of these assertions could not be checked definitely...
...from Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mr. Marshall, during the War, gave it to the Red Cross for auctioning. Each time the highest bidder, having paid, returned the cup for further auctioning. When a series of such auctions had realized $125,000, Mr. Marshall decided to smash the cup, melt the gold for Red Cross benefit. Before an audience which included President Wilson he cracked it once. The cup fell apart, turned out to be mostly pewter, worth...
...Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that the judges decided that this time not Bonthron but Cunningham was inches in front. Venzke again was a stride behind. The time (3:52.3) was a new indoor record...
...London Economic Conference last July the world's silver countries entered into a four-year silver agreement (TIME, July 31). Of the great silver holding countries China promised not to melt down any coin; India, not to sell more than 35,000,000 ounces per year; Spain, not to sell more than 5.000.000 ounces. The silver-producing countries agreed to buy up 35.000.000 ounces per year and keep it off the market. The U. S. quota for silver purchases was set at 24,421,410 ounces, practically the present amount of annual U. S. production...
...from between the bricks with air drills and then to replace defective material with a substance of an improved type. The new material is believed to be a mortar mixed with paraffin which is placed in the cracks and then heat applied by coal burners in an effort to melt the wax which, they hope, will then spread around the bricks and form a protective film against the driving of the rains...