Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unknown. In Brighton, England, Zoo Keeper Peter Gibbs banged his head on a metal post, fell into a monkey cage, woke up shortly to find one of the animals seated on his chest, delightedly twirling his 15-inch mustaches...
...other aspect is industrial. The great aluminum plant (the world's largest individual producer) is a mile long, half a mile wide. There habitants who have forsaken the logging camps and rock-strewn farms work in vast Dantesque chambers among massive vats and electrolytic furnaces. The metal they turn out goes into pots & pans, airplanes, building materials, cigarette holders, poker chips, electric conduits. Soon, Alcan will build an aluminum bridge across the Saguenay...
...still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently has a well-endowed faculty...
...hundred scientists of a dozen nations seized on May's incandescent hunch. In 1884 a German, Paul Nipkow, invented a whirling metal disc, which eventually picked up vague picture outlines and was the basis for mechanical television. Italy's Marconi, with his wireless, and America's Edison, with his motion picture, added ears and movement to the dim silhouettes that were forming...
...picture by deflecting coils, which steer it. When the beam hits a strongly positive area, a good many of its electrons are attracted into the glass by the positive charge. When it crosses "shadows," only a few electrons stick. The rest bounce back and are gathered up by charged metal surfaces at the small end of the tube...