Word: waterproofer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waterproof." Probably no less revolutionary-looking crowd ever assembled under Red banners. Watching the listless demonstrators, one could be sure that their incapacity for revolution was exceeded only by their disinterest in it. Their mood was as grey as the overcast sky above. When a thin drizzle of rain fell, hundreds ran for shelter. Cracked a German onlooker: "Ah! These revolutionaries are not waterproof!" As a mass they resembled nothing bolder than a crowd at a railroad station waiting for a late train. They stood in idle little groups, talking over personal, non-political problems: "Emmie, have you no idea...
...Invented waterproof pancakemake...
...view in the "reposing room" before the ceremony. The service could be held either in the "chapel" or in a regular church, whichever she preferred, but it would be a great comfort to know that her late husband would be laid away in a vault of waterproof cement, guaranteed to give protection "not for years, not for life, but forever." The whole thing would come to about...
...American Institute of Architects tells about a new building material called Pyrok. When sprayed from a special gun, Pyrok sticks to almost any surface (from strawboard to steel) and rapidly builds up a wall of any desired thickness. A sledgehammer ,blow dents but does not crack it. It is waterproof, weatherproof, fireproof, and an excellent insulator, but can be sawed and nailed like wood...
Time of death presents another dilemma, Brickley continued. The dead man's waterproof wristwatch read 7:15 o'clock, but "I'm hanged if I can say whether that means A.M. or P.M.," the Examiner observed. Harmon's four associates from Leverett were also unable to assert whether he wound his watch in the morning or evening...