Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lads was announced by Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of Lawrenceville School (N. J.). A onetime crew coach and Latin teacher at Yale, Dr. Abbott was born in Halifax, educated at Oxford. Three students will be selected annually from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Shrewsbury, the schools which Dr. Abbott believes mold British opinion-makers. They will spend holidays with their U. S. schoolmates, will take a special course of Dr. Abbott's devising: U. S. History, physics and chemistry, higher mathematics and modern languages (which some pedagogs think are taught better in U. S. secondary schools than in British...
...flexible flask. Sculptor Lenz added a principle long used in dentistry, never before in sculpture. A vacuum pump is attached to the mold. Instead of pouring the metal in, it is sucked strongly into the finest grooves. At the same time air pressure causes
...mold and flask to contract strongly...
...Casting several metals in one mold was a matter of memorizing the exact melting points of the various special alloys he employed. There was no welding. To cast a girl with a golden arm and a silver dress, for example, the arm would be cast first. When cool the hot silver alloy would be sucked into the same mold. Heat of the silver would fuse the arm to the body...
...flower casting the mold preparation is brushed on the flower coat by delicate coat, the mold toasted and the flower ash cleaned out with hot mercury as usual...