Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Berlin was only mildly amused by the haremish antics, wondered why in his many operas Handel had been so content to write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came...
...themselves to the basically altered conditions of modern life. The old security of farm, home, and church is gone and in its place there is a new and confusing set of standards and ideals. It may be a simple thing for the nomadic urbanites to fit in this new mold but for the country folk it is puzzling and upsetting to change the serene, soil-rooted tenor of their lives in accordance with these new and unfamiliar conditions. Upon this background Miss Suckow has fashioned an absorbing and deeply satisfying novel...
...homemade teeth, explaining: "When my teeth begun to ache, my grandson, he got a horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen-a dipper, boiler, or anything-and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth...
...house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors in its flank opened for ladles. Nearby was the mold-a circular tank 2 ft. deep, 17 ft. across, composed of insulated silicate brick, its floor studded with circular and triangular bosses laid out in a honeycomb design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside...
...supervisor peered into the beehive, gave an alarm signal. Some of the mounds on the mold floor had worked loose, were floating on the surface of the glass. The iron bolts holding them in place had melted...