Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ammonia gas, etc., and eliminating oxygen, water vapor and carbon dioxide. But the lithium system provides a neutral atmosphere so simple to handle that little skill is needed. Air and fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...
...before she was entirely restored; Navy "Seabees" rode along from the base and were still hard at work patching when she started sending her planes into action. In the final round of the Solomons battle last November, the torpedo bombers caught a Kongo-class battleship, slapped it with six tin fish and left it dead in the water...
Sirs: In my opinion the inclusion of Monteverdi, Palestrina and Chopin in the twelve best list of composers voted by the musicologists is almost as absurd as the inclusion of Tin Pan Alley Gershwin by the Stanford students. And where are the two greatest symphonists of our time-Sibelius and Shostakovich...
Every four weeks some 15,000 new items are added and 10,000 out-of-date ones are thrown away to keep the walls of the TIME & LIFE Building from bursting. To save space we keep newspapers on microfilm-800 pages on a roll the size of a sardine tin...
...lovely, flower-scented early Black Sea summer, the season when in the old days the nobility, in the new days the people of Russia had taken their vacations along that coast. Voyetekhov gives a paradisal picture of the peace he left behind him in the Caucasus: "Beside whitewashed, tin-roofed houses, on cottage chairs under cherry trees, were sitting the most beautiful Russian women-Kuban Cossacks." Voyetekhov went into Sevastopol aboard a destroyer at night, finding the half-wrecked city in flames. Milling around the dock were women & children whom the destroyer was to evacuate when it had unloaded...