Word: melts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house of a neighbor, George Epperson, a Rock Island Railroad blacksmith. Epperson took it to the shop, but none of the other metalsmiths could tell him what it was. Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it. On the Fourth of July, young Don and his friends found a use for their find: they took it out after dark and put on a fireworks display by knocking it with a hammer. "The only trouble was," said Don, "we burnt a lot of holes in our clothes...
...planes has turned Douglas engineers, of necessity, into inventors who range far beyond aeronautics. For example, they had to turn out new type of refrigeration to cool the cockpit and entire fuselage of the supersonic X3; otherwise, the friction heat at 1,800 m.p.h. would kill the pilot and melt the metal. To whip the problem of windshield fogging at great speeds, they are helping devise a water-repellent coating which prevents fogging for long periods...
...torch looked like an ordinary oxyacetylene cutter, but its bright white flame (burning powdered aluminum in oxygen) ate into a wall of concrete as though it were candle wax. A second torch, burning fluorine in hydrogen, spat a tiny blue flame that could melt the concrete even faster. Either one, explained scientists of Temple University's Research Institute last week, could knife through any substance known...
...epitaph for the Third Republic. "The old teams," he wrote, "moving slower & slower, went in & out 'making the little tour,' always with a little more skepticism, always with a little more discredit." Of ministerial crises he noted: "At the first hot episode the cement would melt and everything would have to be done over again . . . Sometimes the government was overthrown on the very day it presented itself to the Chamber." Of the presidency that he would later fill, he wrote: "The President faithfully represented and expressed the national will only on the day following a great election, when...
Some girls shave their legs. Others melt down some candle wax, splash it on, let it cake, and chip if off, Saves blades, they explain...