Word: resinous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promoter Fox and associates underwrote Dr. Ringer and set him up in an elaborate, air-conditioned laboratory on Manhattan's East Side to perfect a marketable version of his match. While experimenting, Dr. Ringer dissolved some vinyl-resin plastic in acetone. In working with the solution, he noticed it forming thin-skinned, elastic bubbles. He called Matty. Cried Matty: "A gold mine, pure and simple...
...Ulcers, there are two new palliatives: 1) a drug called asymatrine, developed by University of Georgia researchers, which generally stops intestinal spasms and pain; and 2) a synthetic, acid-neutralizing resin called Amberlite IR, which seems to have less disagreeable side-effects than alkalis or gels...
...Products. Weyerhaeuser is turning out five bark products under the name, Silvacon. They can be used as a soil mulch, in the manufacture of phenolic resin and fiber paints, and as a plywood adhesive...
Like their descendants for 30 centuries, those early Egyptians were dark with the thought of death, and of the perilous journey to the other world. Commoners had to travel light, but Queen Mereneith got a bang-up traveling outfit. Her body was rubbed with resin, wrapped in cloth strips with the arms outside (not strapped to the side, as in later mummies) and placed in a wooden sarcophagus. In the walls of the tomb, brightly painted like a palace interior, were false doors through which her soul could escape. She had all the furniture she might need, and plenty...
Knife & Corn. The Maya, he says, were remote cousins of the Inca, the Iroquois and the Eskimo. Squat, copper-colored, often cross-eyed (admiring crossed eyes, they hung beads of resin before the eyes of their infants to induce a squint), they were wise, brilliant, cruel...