Word: spun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk with the most remarkable of them all could only have strengthened his desire. He met Mohandas Gandhi shortly after noon in the marbled and gilded Calcutta mansion of Gandhi's rich cotton-milling backer, Ghanshyamdas Birla. Throughout the conversations, Gandhi spun yarn on a charkha (hand spinning wheel). He talked with the Gissimo through an interpreter, with vivid Mme. Chiang in English. After 80 minutes the Chinese visitors dined, while the Mohandas, as usual, abstained from mid-day eating. The conference continued through Gandhi's evening meal of unleavened cakes, boiled vegetables, goat's milk...
...depended on. And if U.S. production of long-staple cotton booms (the Government is now encouraging it with special subsidies), U.S. spindles to spin it are limited, even on a three-shift basis, to a maximum of 4,000,000 Ib. a year. If all of that were spun into the best hosiery yarn, it would take care of only about 3% of the normal U.S. women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl who used to take pride in her legs will wear either seamless...
...Radio waves can be used to dry artificial silk as it is spun out of cellulose and reeled into hollow spools. Dried formerly with heat, the outer fibers would dry first and contract upon the inner ones, causing nonuniform drying and shrinkage. But high-frequency radio waves emanating from an antenna in the center of the reel dry the fibers uniformly, avoid shrinkage...
Coward has wispily but brightly spun out his joke through a whole evening. Blithe Spirit-as sure a hit for Broadway as it is in London-can be aptly tagged with a single word...
...happened when Dick Harlow asked Bingham to take the famed Harlow tin whistle and give it a blast whenever the ball was downed. On the first play the ball was snapped, backs spun, and Bingham raced down the left side of the field...