Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have to pull any 'it smacks of the Bowery' stuff foah protection if you park a moment to...eh...talk like they do down at the point...Ah should say not...most emphstically not...'n' their minds...Ah do adoah intelligent men...don't you?...'n' they she can mix a cocktall...Course they lose out on the uniform part...but Ah dum no, there's somethin' about 'em that makes you fall...Ah reckon it's cause they're so different...What's the marter...The game's ovah?...Who was anyhow...
...steel alloy until very recently. Pure iron is a relatively soft metal. A little carbon added yields hard steel. Steel plus a trifle of manganese gives an alloy hard enough, when fabricated into rails, to support heavy subway traffic. If with manganese steel a bit of molybdenum is mixed, the alloyed steel is still harder. G. M. Eaton of Molybdenum Corp. of America advised railroads to use the molybdenum steel for rails. It would support the heavier locomotives and trains that U. S. transportation is requiring. X-rayed Metals. Use X-rays for detecting blowholes, pinholes, porosity, shrinks and refractory...
Sued. Tom Mix, cowboy cinemactor, now touring with Sells-Floto Circus; for $400,000; by Zack Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Charge: breach of contract (TIME, April...
...Champagne, on the other hand, must submit to indecent manipulations. To render it epileptic they dose it with candied sugar, tannin, brandy, alum. They mix it with other wines. They shake it. They set each bottle rump in air, and they oblige it to spit?and this word is a euphemism?the muck that has settled against the cork. . . . The manufacturers, in spite of all difficulties, finally conquer the undisciplined beverage. They stick a label on its belly, slap a gold or silver plaque on its head, and there it is ready to conquer the world...