Word: wax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council has been debating whether to confer "The Freedom of the City" on Sir Harry, and had heard several councilmen wax unetuous over his morale work during the World War, not forgetting to add that "his only son lies buried in a hero's grave...
Five years ago, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, stood the Eden Musee, noted for its wax figures of history's horrible episodes and its automatic checker player. This machine, mathematically inspired, was able to beat the shrewdest human players...
...tweaker proceeds to tweak by bringing the strands into close proximity with a human hair which is caught and held by squeezing the handles of the tweaker. Then, according to the Tweaker Company: With a gentle motion it rolls hair out?root and all. . . . Now razors, chemicals and painful wax go the way of all obsolete things...
...Rays. Several speeches set forth the new usefulness of X-rays in studying the crystal structures of pearls, limes, asbestos, butter, wax, etc. The X-ray studies of C. Norman Kemp in England on coal and coke cited, praised. X-raying of the structure of rubber, which is amorphous (noncrystalline) when unstretched and develops fibre-crystals when stretched at various tensions, was noted as a likely road to the discovery of how to make synthetic rubber...
...more words expressing his appreciation of the Boy Scouts than does Mr. Coolidge. Not being an aspirant to any Ask Me Another prizes, I discontinued there, and have only to offer you this advice. Don't send sample copies with your circular letters, and do not bother to wax so eloquent about TIME to people who have seen or read...