Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which grew up in Mediterranean sunlight and in contempt of all barbarians North, East and South (see above) is the art of fresco painting. On the island of Crete and in Egypt as early as 2,900 B. C. artists were already masters in the technique of mixing sand, lime and water to form a smooth wall covering, painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit for doing any section of wall...
...with hind legs like springs, came bounding past in pairs, their sleek orange fur glistening in the half-light, their white bellies immaculate as snow. Bundles of purplish fur bobbed up and down amongst the water weeds, every now and then appearing on open patches of mud and sand, balanced on their pale, stilt-like supports and long, naked tails. A marsh rat (Malacomys) has much to do as darkness falls, searching out likely feeding grounds, cleaning his dense woolly coat, preening his immense whiskers, and apparently fraternizing with his kind...
...behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate rock quarries. Until then the standard means of extracting phosphorus consisted of mixing the ore with sulphuric acid. In 1922, however, a better method came into general use- mixing ore and sand in electric furnaces at high temperatures. This put August Kochs in a pretty fix, for competitors had tied up the southern power supply. Undaunted, Chemist Kochs adapted the blast furnace used by the steel industry, spent $500,000 in experimentation before Victor finally regained its dominance in 1928. Last year...
...northern New Jersey sea coast one winter's day in 1868, Rev. William B. Osborne, Methodist minister and onetime Philadelphia marble dealer, left his horse & buggy on the highway, wandered among sand dunes, knelt in prayer. There, during the following summer, he put up a tent, held religious services. Later, with a pious Manhattan brush maker named James A. Bradley, he formed the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, began selling lots. Ocean Grove prospered...
...kinky-bearded, 64-year-old Thorvald Stauning, Premier of Denmark, after breaking a leg. The New York Times said he tripped over a "grassy knoll" near Loekken while he was showing friends a short cut across sand dunes to the main road from his seaside bungalow. The Associated Press said he fell aboard the yacht Nordsee. The United Press said he was holidaying at his bungalow atop a dune, got out of bed for a stroll in his nightshirt, stumbled in the dark...