Word: wax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawbacks of the mohair strips are that they tend to ice up in some weather and may fill up with klister if someone ahead of you is using wax...
...Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe, 58, who made millions manufacturing cleaning products (including Glass Wax) in North Dakota before coming to Washington, plans to stay and may well shop for a business...
...strings, etc. As you look through them the edges fall off--the archivist says 'eh beh' (so?) and shrugs. I couldn't get them all back in the cardboard box so he came and helped, that is, he jammed them all in and jammed the cover on, smashing several wax seals from say 1430 in the process. E beh? As the archivist said later--these things have lasted 500 years, how much longer do you want them to last...
...William Bryant of Trenton performed tests on a torpedo of Surinam and proved that it could send a shock "through metallic substances, like an old sword blade," but when the sword was "armed with sealing wax, the electric fluid would not pass...
...pieces provide a view of history as a museum display. Like a wax museum it has its chambers of horrors--but everything in good taste and proportion, subdued by aesthetic distance...