Word: seamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diameter. To make long belts, sections of screen must be joined together. Arc welding or flame welding with a torch would be cheap and convenient, but it is impracticable because if the heat is applied an instant too long, the soft brass or bronze is burned and the seam ruined. In the Longoria device the weld is made with a small needle projecting from an insulated handle. When the needle is lifted from the seam, current stored in three condensers is discharged, a spark jumps the gap and just the right amount of heat is delivered to make a good...
...particularly when the seam of the stocking is awry and coils itself like an ungainly serpent around a girl's dainty calf...
...What a disgusting fit!" he said coolly. "Really, Bathurst, you must permit me to introduce you to my tailor. Just look at that demmed seam...
...Hupp, 69, onetime oil-riggers, went to the poorhouse to live. Last summer their Superintendent smiled indulgently when they cackled of oil in the back yard, gave them permission to drill. From grinning neighbors they borrowed drill and engine. Fuel they had none till they discovered and worked a seam of coal on the grounds. Three weeks of drilling and they struck oil-30 barrels a day. Last week Superintendent and neighbors grinned no more when Yerian & Hupp turned down $10,000 for the well, organized Pauper Oil Co. Said Yerian to Hupp: "I don't care how much...
When Benito Mussolini marched on Rome, the only first-rate ports on the whole Adriatic (back seam of Italy's boot) were Venice and Trieste. In recent years the Fascist Government has spent millions of lire building another great new port at the medieval town of Bari, with elaborate warehouses, tracks, and a model town, to serve North Africa and the East...