Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dawn Method. First step in making a Dawn inlay for a disfigured man is to make a life mask of his face with the missing parts added. Then the extra bit is removed and duplicated in Dawn's plastic. To stick the inlay on, the man wets the inside with alcohol. This dissolves the plastic a little, and the inlay clings perfectly when pressed into place. Next the inlay is touched up with make-up to match the skin...
...like a child while at work and play. Observing his own children and grandchildren, Thorndike noted that these babblings sometimes repeated themselves in connection with the same act or object, at first by chance, then deliberately. Thus a primitive man may have babbled "ik" as he poked with a stick or "kuz" as he dug up a clam, then repeated the sound when he poked or dug again...
Eventually, Thorndike believes, the man attached the sound "ik" to stick, in a lifetime developed in this way a private language of perhaps 20 to 25 words. Making himself understood was harder, but his fellows, hearing him cry "Kuz!" whenever he found a clam, finally caught...
...looking for is a place to dance, you won't be quite so bitterly disappointed. Most of the hotels and night clubs have reasonably competent bands, and the Bradford recently began a series of big-name, commercial bands. But if it's you want, you'd better stick to the records you brought with...
...take paint so well that the flat-surface buildings, roads, trees, rocks painted on it would trick the eyes of Axis airmen. The company finally hit upon 1½ in.-mesh poultry wire, to which chicken feathers are glued with an asphalt adhesive. Because feathers are tough to handle, stick together on damp days, swirl around in the smallest breeze, methods and machines had to be devised to handle them. A special plant was designed to make the wire (20,000 sq. yd. daily) and feed the feathers (25 lb. to every 100 sq. yd.) on to it. (The feathered...