Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jarred out of its bourgeois rut: 1) by a special sort of grafting, 2) by modifying the external environment at the proper stage of the plant's development, or 3) by crossing sharply differing varieties. If done properly, the plant's heredity is "disestablished." It becomes plastic, enterprising, willing to try new methods of getting along in the world. Then, if moved to a new environment, it can change itself to fit the new conditions...
Finally trapped by reporters last week, harassed Inventor Stiles said that the new hand will not be finished for another five weeks. It will be covered with a soft, lifelike, flesh-colored plastic which ought to look and behave like the real article...
...house, at present, which could be manufactured chiefly of new materials and on a truly mass-production basis is one prefabricated in the ever-fertile imagination of R. Buckminster ("Dymaxion") Fuller (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943). With an eye to production by planemakers, the dreamhouse consists of an aluminum and plastic circular shell supported by a central stainless-steel shaft, instead of a conventional foundation. Newly formed Fuller Houses, Inc. (former name: Dymaxion Dwelling Machines, Inc.) hopes to license upwards of 70 manufacturers to produce 185,000 units a year. But the only licensee to date is Wichita's Beech...
...afternoon quiet had settled in the dining room of Manhattan's Midston House. Ten-year-old Cornelius Kaehane pushed in, walked to the cashier's desk, took two plastic toy pistols out of the pockets of his shabby lumberjacket. He stared at the young woman with his dirty face full of furious purpose. Nothing happened. Infuriated, he slammed one of his pistols down on the desk and cried, ''This is a stickup." A look of mild annoyance crossed the cashier's face. Cornelius stood on tiptoe, grabbed two ten-dollar and two one-dollar bills...
Rossini: Overtures (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Italy's great kettledrum-banging composer is heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...