Word: boils
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...increases, says Dr. Carl E. Snyder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., spacecraft may be built largely of plastics, which will fare better than metals in the hostile outer world. Snyder and W. B. Cross of Goodyear Aircraft Corp. told an Air Force space conference in Dayton that many metals "boil away" slowly in the near-perfect vacuum of space. Plastics, which are made of long molecular chains linked and tangled together, are less volatile than metals, and therefore should last longer...
Worse yet is the phony backwoodsiness of much of the dialogue ("Yuh doan git lard less'n yuh boil the hawg"), and worst of all is the teary sentiment that blears every other frame of the film and wallows to a climax of blubbering bathos when a little girl, as the carnage at the Alamo concludes, turns to her mother and piteously inquires: "Mummy, where's Daddy...
Solar Stove. A 14-lb. aluminum-coated steel disk that cooks by focusing the rays of the sun on its grill has been developed by Los Angeles' American Landscape Products, Inc. The 32-in. reflector gathers enough heat to grill a steak in twelve minutes, boil water in two minutes. Price...
...merely a question of time now before the pot, which has been blackened with much burning, will boil over...
...knack for theater with a sense of truth. With its misfits and misfortunes, all too much of the play could have turned sentimental; only here and there is it a little so. Even more, it could have turned sensational, but bold black words like Illegitimacy and Homosexuality and Miscegenation boil down into what is in the world and what happens in life, and indeed the girl's touching, not unthorny relationship with the homosexual is the best thing in the play. Nor does A Taste of Honey shout its protest, which is as much social as economic, and aimed...