Word: woven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then Roebling cables and wire rope-and often Roebling engineering-have gone into almost every important U.S. suspension bridge. Roebling has 6,200 employes, 21 plants. It also makes electric cables, woven wire cloths and screens, special types of wire used in typewriters, machinery, hardware...
AWAKE DEBORAH-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.50). Long golden hair woven into a Dartmoor heath lark's nest is the first clue to murder that stirs an English botanist out of his dignified ease and sadly perplexes Scotland Yard. Lengthy, but impressive story in the grand English tradition...
...perfected that the U.S. Army Air Corps has ordered 12,000 of them from General Electric. In developing the suits, a Flying Fortress crew last winter flew 10,000 feet up over Alaska in -30° weather, dressed only in long woolen underwear through which electrical coils were woven. The new suits are lighter and cheaper than the sheepskin garments now used, and they leave a flier nimbler at his controls and guns. Heat can be adjusted for outside temperatures from 70° to -60°, can be increased to protect injured fliers from shock and pneumonia. General Electric analyzed...
...examine the covers of several rebound books, you will discover that some have three small ridges close to the "spines". Instead of being a defect, these ridges indicate that the book's binding is particularly strong. In such instances, the cords left by the scamstresses are actually woven into the board of the cover, but otherwise the cords are merely frayed out, flattened, and glued down...
Into this them O'Neill has woven all the suspense possible. His main implement is the drum which begins to throb at the end of the first act and continues throughout, beating faster and faster as the natives come closer to their prey. To the drum he adds the visions of the fleeing Emperor, and in the murky forest appear the ghost figures of the men that Brutus Jones has killed. At each of these Jones fires a shot out of the precious six that he has until at last he shoots the sixth--a silver bullet he had saved...