Word: yolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Egged On. In Brooklyn, Magistrate Henry Soffer took up the case of four men who had smashed 3,600 eggs in a fight, learned that the arresting officer's name was Eggolt, said brightly: "This is certainly a scrambled mess." Cracked the defense attorney: "That's no yolk...
Zerbe, 43, never liked the paint that comes from tubes. Since his student days at Frankfurt (where he studied chemistry), he had tried all the usual mediums, as well as egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap and Duco automobile enamel. Zerbe got around to encaustic six years ago. He liked its fast-drying, refulgent surface. In 1934 Zerbe moved to the U.S.-out of Hitler's way. The Boston Museum school of art made him a teacher...
...routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration for Strip Tease in a Union City, N.J. burlesque house, painted the picture on gesso panel in a soft-toned mixture of egg yolk and dry color...
...producers. Their average production-8,557 lbs. of milk in 305 days-was nearly twice the U.S. average per cow. Dr. John H. Beattie, technician in charge of Bartlett's group No. 1 at Clinton, N.J., has said that a single servicing from a bull, diluted with egg yolk and sodium phosphate, can be used to inseminate 100 cows. Thus one good bull can service 5,000 cows a year (as compared with 50 by natural mating...
...hardly dug into the can of pork and egg yolk when a bullet whizzed close overhead. We hit the dirt behind the cement fence. A marine yelled: "I saw him. He jumped into a cave over there in the rock quarry." Several other marines ran toward the quarry-one of several dozen on Saipan. Caves in the sides of these scooped-out affairs are favorite hiding places for Japs. Then began the familiar game of "flush the sniper...