Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three pairs of rubbers, 16 lipsticks and a set of red plastic measuring cups turned up at the sale. So did two raincoats and a pair of pocketbooks, but their owners rushed in from lunch in time to rescue them before they went on the block...
...been working fine against the common cold, which is often caused by a virus. During the past few months, many cold sufferers who wouldn't know a virus if one sneezed in their faces have felt better after sniffing penicillin dust up their noses from little plastic inhalers...
...group then developed a more realistic skull substitute. They made life-sized, head-shaped shells of brittle plastic and filled them with gelatin. They finally got an artificial human skull that reacted to shock almost exactly like a real one. Then they catapulted the models against solid objects resembling airplane parts that passengers' heads might hit in a crash...
...theory to guide designers of aircraft. An airplane that is easiest on skulls, Cornell decided, should hold its passengers as tightly as possible. The things that skulls might strike against should not be small, hard objects, but should be made of thin metal formed around broad shapes of yielding plastic foam...
...Manhattan's Starling Products brought out the latest in bathroom art: plastic shower curtains with color reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings (The Bridge at Aries and Boats of Saintes-Maries). The curtains, first of a series of reproductions of famed paintings, will retail...