Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the two thick-skinned waterfrosh took their refreshing dip, fellow yardling J. Glick Busby performed the service of holding their vestments. He reports that when they came for their clothes "there was a loud noise, and a rush, and then I wasn't holding the stuff any more...
...many a somnolent Southern town, war has brought a new life. That life has come in the shape of trucks rumbling through the wide, shady streets, strangers in uniform lounging on the corners, coins clinking a silvery song in cash registers, an unwonted jangle of juke boxes combing the thick night air. Such a town is Albany (pop. 19,055) on the sandy plains of southern Georgia...
...reason for the slowness of lignin utilization is that, in spite of more than 60 years of research by scores of chemists, nobody has yet precisely determined its structure-what atoms in what pattern form its molecule. But when the theory is cleared up, useful applications will follow thick & fast. Reason: chemists will know what they are working with and can abandon the essentially trial-&-error methods now forced upon them. Chief center of molecular lignin research is the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory at Madison...
...shells. Induction heating is used in forging thick metal disks into shells. Its speed and adaptation to automatic work contribute to the mass production demanded in munitions making. The quick-heated metal forms only a soft scale which does not wear out the dies as fast as the hard scale of slow-heated shell material...
...Feet sweat in any weather. Best way to keep them warm is an Arctic sock one-half inch thick, which requires a shoe two sizes larger than usual. If feet get frozen, they should not be rubbed with snow, since frozen tissues are likely to crack and break. Best method of thawing frozen flesh is to warm it gradually without bending or chafing...