Word: moltenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Union's Long Island laboratory, a new kind of lamp was shining last week. It might not be the biggest, the brightest or the most economical, but designers and users of optical instruments were excited about it. Reason: its light came from a speck of molten metal only three one-thousandths of an inch in diameter...
...make our way to the place where our Church stood. In the ashes, we find a few molten remnants of the holy vessels...
...heartland of the manufacturing East was dead: steel was down in the greatest strike in history. The smoke lifted over Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. The glow of slag dumps dimmed in Birmingham, Ala. The blast furnaces of South Chicago and Youngstown, from which swaying ladles had drawn the molten seed of national growth, now cooled in unnatural silence. The wonder of the world, a national capacity to produce 95,000,000 tons of steel a year, was wonderfully impotent...
...best things-a molded gold flask (see cut)-was made by the cire-perdue (lost wax) method, which the ancient Egyptians-and Benvenuto Cellini-also used. The flask was modeled in wax, then covered with clay. When the clay was baked, the wax melted and was drawn off. Molten gold was then poured into the baked clay mold...
...greatness of this country," Payne observes, "is terrifying. [China is a nation] swiftly changing and terribly virile . . . where the metal is molten and the people are searching for new gods, or the old gods transformed into a more virile strength. . . ." Through the diary he kept during the bleakest years (1941-44) of China's war, the author comes back again & again to this thought - sometimes in prose, sometimes in verse...