Word: fabricating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unobtrusively. Long hours of patient thumbing of volumes, searchings in obscure manuscripts for essential facts, do not contribute to stimulating applause or wide recognition. Yet it is just such labor which leads to valuable discoveries and important additions to knowledge. Upon arduous hours of research is built the present fabric of mental civilization...
Three weeks ago he was reported in Georgia inspecting with a group of strangers certain textile mills. The natural inference was that he intended placing contracts for tire fabrics, and Akron folk knew that if he did, he would drive a sharp bargain advantageous to his company. At least he made a huge deal, which was consummated last week in Manhattan. The contract was between President Work and President Harry T. Dunn of the Fisk Rubber Co., on the one side, and R. E. Hightower and his son, W. H. Hightower, the Georgia textile people. It provided...
...DYBBUK?Religious legend made the fabric of a strange and stirring love story...
...Nonrigid airships (balloons) are constructed with no metal framework in the gasbag save a ring at the bottom to which fabric, valves and passenger basket are attached. The semirigid dirigible ("blimp") employs a keel or spine of structural metal usually aluminum, to stiffen the under side of the envelope, support cabins, motors, crew. The rigid (Zeppelin) type of ship has a complete skeleton of struts and girders, with hoops articulated laterally inside its spine and ribs to form separate gas chambers when covered with fabric inside as well...
...good prize fights, and is a confirmed first-nighter at the theatre, it is hardly likely that any of these specialties got him a job. Perhaps his neat way of dressing contributed. He is a natty dresser, likes rather a tight fit in his clothes, favors a green fabric with a white stripe, is given to wearing patent-leather shoes...