Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Which transfers Vari-Typed copy to a zinc plate and then to a rubber roller which prints it, thus eliminating metal type and the costlier flat-bed press which small papers ordinarily...
...reclassified as a chemical nuisance. Then chemists learned how to remove titanium from iron ore, and found that its oxide is intensely white. So titanium dioxide got a job as a pigment for white paints. But until recently no one had much hope for the pure element as a metal. Getting it out of its ores in metallic form was very difficult...
Last week the Du Pont Co. announced that it was making about 100 pounds of metallic titanium a day, and was offering it at $5 a pound for manufacturers to experiment with. The new metal turns out to be wonderful stuff, according to Du Pont. It looks like stainless steel and is about as strong and corrosion-resistant, but weighs only slightly more than half as much. It is several times stronger than aluminum, and less than twice as heavy...
Listen to the Boomlay. The 38-piece orchestra included 16 native percussion instruments (with names like the pio, chocalho de metal, reco-reco and matraca) which thumped and clattered and clapped the rhythm. At times the music was full of melody, as melancholy as a native chant. Sometimes it bumped and blared like a carnival band. There were smatterings of dissonance and explosions of jungle jazz; and in one scene, Villa-Lobos had two different songs going at once, as skillfully laced together as a Bach fugue...
...best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold and copper that abounded in the region of Limoges, lay in frozen lakes between the ridges of metal and islanded gems...