Word: sheathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...
...House": "Fellow countrymen, the Army . . . true to Democratic tradition . . . has performed its duty! . . . Now it is up to you to fulfill the mission begun by the National Army. The Saenz Pena electoral law has given you the most powerful arm of Democracy [voting by secret ballot]. . . . Let us now sheath our swords and let ballots rule...
...high-voltage cables, the insulation consists of paper tapes wound around the copper conductor, and impregnated with some heavy insulating oil: the whole is enclosed in a lead sheath. During the process of manufacture, air is inevitably occluded within the insulation and later while the cable is in operation gases are evolved from the oil. With high operating voltages these gases become ionized, and, striking the paper tapes, in time destroy them, literally by bombardment. In addition the heat generated chars the insulation and disintegrates the oils so that the combined effects have made high voltage cables the most unreliable...