Word: mold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been known for 80 years, only about 3,000 have been successfully worn. For six years Dr. William Feinbloom, research fellow of Columbia University, labored on the problem of a lens made to fit any given eye perfectly. Last week he told how he solved it. Wax was molded roughly to the shape of the eye, to which it was then applied, left for ten minutes. Body heat and eye movements softened the wax until it conformed exactly to the eye curve. The eye was then irrigated with ice water to cool and set the wax, and with this...
...letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched a lever and presented him, hot from the mold, with a solid line of type...
...been thoroughly scraped, oiled and polished. Sculptor Donato again sprinted for the Mayor's office, there met with fur ther bad news. A third WPA crew, he was told, had got at a bronze Washington in front of Independence Hall, holystoned away every trace of its treasured greenish mold. The WPA ducked further trouble with aroused Sculptor Donato by announcing that it had no more time to devote to scrubbing statues...
...gash: "We have gone to the iron foundry for mechanical aid in treating such cases. Iron is cast through the use of sand cores that have the shape of the desired casting. We need a core that has the shape of the normal larynx so that we can mold from the amorphous mass of shattered cartilage, torn tissue and blood clots the opening necessary for the normal functioning of the organ." To do that Dr. Jackson has a set of expansible soft rubber rods of graduated diameters. First he makes a hole through the base of the patient...
...tour is the conductor who built up the Philadelphia Orchestra to be one of the greatest in the world. Last week's audiences were fascinated by Stokowski: his swift graceful dash for the podium, the svelte back he turned, the fine graceful hands which seem to mold every phrase of the music that is played. The orchestramen seemed like cogs in a magic wheel, but within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker...