Word: varnished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Egloff: Increased maintenance cost will result from cylinder and valve wear, all-around corrosion, plugging fuel lines and dissolving of car varnish...
...Jersey manufacturer, was red oak and maple impregnated thoroughly and uniformly in pressure tanks with ammonium salts which, when hot, release combustion-smothering gases. The treated wood is almost as easily tooled as ordinary wood, a little heavier because of the salt content, no different in appearance. It takes varnish well. The Board's testers created conflagration conditions in large chambers fired by gas nozzles, watched through windows. Under conditions that sent untreated walls and floors roaring up in flames, the treated wood did not burn at all. When exposed to intense heat for long periods, the processed...
...with loan exhibitions of modern paintings for which they pay the artists nothing. The average artist of any reputation generally has six or eight pictures making the museum rounds, seldom sells any. At the end of the season he is put to considerable expense fixing broken frames, patching cracked varnish, and otherwise repairing minor damages to his work...
...though a poorly kept one. Long before the official cablegram arrived from Pittsburgh, friends rushed into Madrid's swank new Café Fuentelarreyna to blurt the news to Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes: The picture he had finished so quickly that he had had no time to varnish it before shipping it to the U. S. last August, had just won the $1,000 first prize at the 33rd Carnegie International show. It was no less exciting news in Pittsburgh, where Carnegie directors have long had a fondness for modern Spanish painting, have seldom been able to find...
...shadchen himself, Rabbi Wolf explained why a marriage broker is useful: ''When you meet a girl on the street or in the subway, all you see is the veneer, the varnish. Now the marriage broker investigates. He looks up the money part of the woman and investigates the man's past, his relations and his standing. The proper way to size up a person is to see if he has business with a bank. If he doesn't deal with a bank, he's no good...