Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Months of preparation had preceded their disappearance. Publisher Hearst had taken every known precaution for Old Glory: A complete radio set, rubber raft, flares, much food for the flyers, even little metal mouthpieces which distill a cup of water from the breath every 24 hours. The destination of the plane was Rome, 4,100 miles away (115 miles beyond Clarence Chamberlin's endurance record into Germany.) The Pope in his Vatican nodded, pleased, when the wires told how Father Mullen, Old Orchard priest, had blessed the plane and tits mission just before the takeoff...
...eight times as sensitive as before, in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead, the X- ray-stopping metal. Impinging on the earth from an unknown source on the universe, these rays are apparently passing through all living things at all times, part of our natural environment. What of their effect on life? Whence do they come...
...razor blades, modeled on the Gillette design, ready to be wrapped in tasteful green wrappers with the handsome portrait and the two legends. At other hiding places, raiders seized more of the imitations; two million blades in all, which had cost perhaps $10,000 to manufacture out of cheap metal, which would have retailed as genuine Gillette blades...
...world was adventurous enough to seek the fountain of youth under the surgeon's guidance-Mrs. King. The resultant publicity helped "make" Dr. Voronov. It delighted Mrs. King. It was like being before the public again. Whenever she walked out on the boulevards she wore a metal monkey pinned to her hat. The monkey glands seem to have worked. Besides, contributing to her wasted body a pitifully incongruous alacrity, they have apparently preserved her against the dismal disillusionment of old age. It is five weeks now since her foster son received a telegram notifying him that she had come...
...freight left Hartford, Conn., last week and arrived in Havana, Cuba. It carried Royal typewriters. The carrier was a Ford-Stout all-metal, three-motor airplane. Included in the equipment was a device to drop freight by parachute. It dropped these typewriters from a height of 700 feet. Unbruised, they worked perfectly...