Word: pane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pour nearly a glass of water out of its coils and crooks. This is not spit. Shame on you! The horn acts as a still. The breath of the performer (and your breath) is a watery vapor. Remember the mist it makes when blown on a cold window pane? The coils of the horn distill out most of this water. . . . All wind instrument players (except organists and operators of the concertina) suffer from this horrible inconvenience but they do not drool while they play. Shame on you! or did I say this already...
...Ties. One cold winter day 14 years ago, while young Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer was pondering cancer problems in Basle, Switzerland, he noticed a cup of steaming hot coffee and one of tea resting side by side on a window sill. The steam from both cups condensed on the window pane, but the crystals of the frost patterns were very different. Dr. Pfeiffer had a hunch that the blood of cancer victims and the blood of healthy persons might perhaps form crystals as different as those of coffee and tea. After trying some 23 substances, he hit on copper chloride...
...Philadelphia's Franklin Institute last week a dummy named Oscar was catapulted headfirst against an automobile windshield. The pane cracked and some crumbs of glass fell outside the car. But when Oscar's head hit it, the pane bulged outward two or three inches. If the dummy had been a real person involved in a motor crash, this elastic yield of the glass might have saved him a skull fracture...
...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...
Safety glass is a double sheet with a transparent filler or binding layer between. In the old glass the filler was cellulose acetate. In the new it is polyvinyl acetal resin, a synthetic plastic made from acetylene. In an automobile this flexible, yielding pane is something like a transparent, moistureproof, windproof curtain. It is expected to cut down the number and seriousness of highway injuries due to sudden stops...