Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuel of a solid-fuel rocket is in a single, roughly cylindrical container, and when the fuel burns, the container's walls are subjected to high pressure. They must be strong but also light, and one of the most promising materials is sheet plastic reinforced with glass fibers. Neither plastic nor glass is heat-resistant, but they do not need to be. The fuel burns from the center outward, and the unburned portion of it protects the wall from heat until nearly all the fuel is gone...
...blob of finger paint all over a sheet of paper. And, without half trying, can spatially extend it over his body, his tee shirt, his shoes, dungarees and, unless restrained...
...share from $2.22 a year earlier, though the company turned its best earnings year since 1955. On the other hand, Bethlehem Steel rang up record yearly earnings, partly on the strength of an increase in fourth-quarter earnings over the third quarter (but below a year before), and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. also managed to raise its fourth-quarter earnings...
Even as a baby, Jim did the star turns at their home in Bray, a seaside village near Dublin. In a morality play staged in the nursery, little Jim wriggled across the floor as the devil, with a rolled-up sheet for a tail, and easily stole the show from Stanislaus' staid Adam and a sister's Eve. It was a pleasant middle-class childhood until Papa Joyce began dragging his brood on an alcoholic long day's journey into night...
Intangibles. As accumulated by CBS, the balance sheet seemed to show that in the material things and the means of making them the U.S. still leads the Soviet Union; in actual strength it may be lagging, and in the crucial intangibles of intent and will power it may already be dangerously behind...