Word: plated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take a piece of toast hot from the toaster tomorrow morning and lay it on a cold plate. When you pick it up you will note the plate is beaded with drops of moisture. And it won't be saliva. . . . The air the musician takes into his lungs is not saturated with saliva when he blows it into his horn, it is warmed in the lungs so that its natural moisture is more easily condensed when it passes into the cooler metal coils of the horn, and this natural moisture of the air (water) is what is precipitated within...
...could do six and one-half knots better than the Spee, maybe eight and one-half with all the truck-&-barnacles the German had picked up in the southern seas. The heavy cruiser was something to think about-8-inchers (they could crack most of the Spee's plate, including the control tower, from close range), and the vessel had an edge in speed...
Born. To Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 20, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000), and Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 25, tin-plate heir ($9,000,000); their first child, a daughter: Sandra Emerson, tin-Bromo heiress...
...design eliminates the necessity for curving the photographic plate by introducing another mirror, a convex spherical mirror onto which the light is reflected immediately before going to the plate...
...world's yearly production) comes from Asia, 18% from Europe, practically all of it is smelted in the British and Dutch empires. War at sea might cut it off. Already shipments from Singapore have been partly rerouted. The U. S. supply of tin is limited to tin-plate scrap reclaimed from U. S. junk piles, but that yields only about 30% of U. S. needs...