Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...variation of this process is being perfected by Metallurgist Henry Alfred Doerner of the U.S. Bureau of Mines who claims that when a chill spray of oil is substituted for the Hansgirg cooling gas the magnesium is rendered nonexplosive by an easily removable oily film which forms on the powder grains. The process has been developed at Washington State College and will probably be used in a 12,000-ton plant at Spokane where magnesium deposits adjoin Grand Coulee's cheap power...
...hack away the rock with his hammer. The Leader picked up a small piece; "Silurian amygdaloidal pyroxenite." And the group wrote in their little black books. This ritual they repeated at several other large rocks. Many slippery smaller rocks were in their way. And the sea burst its spray upon them. They all got their feet wet. And when they reached a very high point on the coast, one slipped and fell down a deep chasm into the sea, and was drowned...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...
Most of the Nazi-controlled European stations are hooked up with Grossdeutscher Rundfunk so that propaganda of the New Order can flow smoothly out of Berlin. Each week the Nazis spray Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium and Bulgaria with 187 network newscasts, 363 pep talks in German. To the rest of the world, in 31 other languages (including Arabic, Frisian, Gaelic and Esperanto) they air a weekly total of 1,266 news bulletins, 303 Goebbelsian reports...
...struck director dyed the white sheets green, hued the actors' faces with green spotlights. To keep the green flowers and vegetables from clashing with his black- & -white banquet scene, he dyed them black. To give clothes and props the oily texture of a painting, he tinted them with spray guns...