Word: rubber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Synthetic rubber...
...back of the mouth where the soft palate should be was his problem. Normally during speech the soft palate moves and forms a partition between the mouth and the cavity back of the nose (nasopharynx). Without it sounds reverberate through the nose. Artificial palates made of hardened rubber for the hard palate and soft rubber for the soft palate do not work well. Hinged artificial palates cause trouble...
...theory that with such an outfit he could keep on ascending until some of the balloons burst (because of the diminishing outside air pressure). Also, he could descend at will by putting several balloons out of commission with a pistol. He thought 2,000 four-foot rubber balloons would be enough for a record flight. Last week's ascent, using only 80 balloons, was in the nature of an experiment to test the efficacy of the method. Prof. Piccard took off from Rochester, Minn., ascended to 11,000 ft., came down six hours later no miles away, avoiding...
Until he had been on the Jingalese throne 25 years, King John was just another rubber-stamp monarch who did as he was told. But sometimes he thought wistfully that it would be nice to know a little bit what it was all about. Or maybe just have a friend to talk to. Lately these troubled moods had been recurring more frequently. He even went so far as to argue with a Cabinet minister, which upset him to the point where he fell down a stairway and knocked a bone loose in his head. Later in the day, having recovered...
...make it look like an attempted assassination, so that abdication now would look like cowardice rather than a rebuke to his Cabinet. King John admitted he was licked. Soon after he became seriously ill, the loose bone was discovered and fixed, whereupon the King recovered rapidly, became his old rubber-stamp self again...