Word: stickum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound of breaking plates is distant, like the hunter's horn in Giselle: though Julian Schnabel, on the evidence of a work like Mimi, 1986, is as wretched a draftsman as ever, at least he spares us more of those ugly crusts of pottery, paint and stickum...
...Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark Twain, got a patent for a stickum-coated scrapbook that sold thousands. A grand and intelligent book...
DIED. Richard G. Drew, 81, Minnesota-born inventor who in 1930, as a laboratory assistant for what is now the 3M Co., combined a glue and glycerin stickum with a strip of transparent cellophane to form Scotch tape; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
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...traded field goals in the third quarter, Cody splitting the uprights from 37 yds. out after the blocked punt and a subsequent ineligible receiver downfield penalty, and Rejda hit from 42 yds. after Mike Jacobs snapped the ball over Flach's head, because his hands were covered with glutinous stickum for his defensive duties...