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Word: metallic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graphotype has a standard typewriter keyboard, and letters can be punched directly onto a metal plate heavy enough to stand up under the pressure of the stereotype machine that makes the "mats" or molds for the lead plates for the presses. This saves time by eliminating photoengraving used by Vari-Type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After 17 Months | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...metal case of the set in question was bulged, and the contents shattered beyond use or identification, but it was no molten mass. Surely, if the bomb was as powerful as described, it would have been a fire hazard in the event of such an accident as I figured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Tail. In the long-ago (to airmen) days of October 1947, the air was like a prison with invisible steel-strong walls. There seemed to be an upper limit to speed. As airplanes flew faster & faster, strange things had happened to them. Hard, unseen fists punctured their metal skins. Mysterious arms reached out of the air to wrestle with their controls. Sometimes a wartime fighter pilot, diving too fast in combat, would feel his stick freeze fast. No matter how he tried, he could not pull out of the dive. Sometimes he did not live to tell the tale. Sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...chair or table mysteriously disappears, to be seen again only as an item on a term bill, it may very well have been carted to the extensive wood-working shops below Dunster House on Memorial Drive. Also in this building are a tinsmith's shop, a key shop, a metal-working shop, and an upholstery shop. A staff of roofers (now almost exclusively employed waterproofing Widener), electricians, and plumbers complete the repair crew of Buildings and Grounds...

Author: By Peter K. Solmssen, | Title: In the Sky . . . On the Land . . . . . . and in Your Bed | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

Westinghouse could see it used as an insulator in appliances such as refrigerators and stoves (it stands heat and cold well) and between metal sheets in prefabricated building units. Non-inflammable, it has a specific gravity between .008 and .012; among currently popular insulators, rock wool ranges from .15 to .25, fiber glass from .02 to .15. (Margery Sterling's meringue grades from .12 to .15.) Enough plastic foam to insulate a six-room house can be shipped in a single barrel, saving storage and trucking space, to the site where it will be used. A workman can soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Inventive Mind | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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