Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government last week decided to save as much nuptial gold as possible, decreed that in Germany no wedding ring can be sold of a quality purer than 8 carat gold. Since pure gold is 24 carat, an 8-carat ring would be exactly two thirds base metal...
Nickel's use in battleship steel and in artillery has given the metal a military overtone much deplored by its sponsors. The British battleships Nelson and Rodney each have about 500,000 lb. of nickel in their 34,000 tons of steel. The French light field pieces, the famed 75's, each contained about 50 lb. of nickel. But there is no nickel in rifles, sabers, bayonets, bombs, shells or shrapnel. In 1934 Nickel's officers estimated that not more than 5% of nickel produced was used for military purposes, whereas 20% was going into automobiles...
...need road surfaces that will last at least a century and roofs that will never leak. We need a superconductor for electricity. We need artificial teeth that are as good as natural, . . . paper as permanent as parchment, fabrics and dyes that wind and sun cannot touch, a spring metal that will not fail with fatigue and rubber that will last a century. We need a satisfactory anesthetic for childbirth...
...Lawrence has learned not to trifle with the big magnet. Once a small metal part worked loose within its field, whizzed into the core, nipped off the end of Dr. Lawrence's finger on the way. He and his men carry little gadgets resembling fountain pens clipped to their pockets, electroscopes to warn them of baneful radiations of the sort that set up tissue necrosis in x-ray experimenters. But neutrons, electrically inert particles, do not affect electroscopes, and penetrate many times farther than x-rays. Dr. Lawrence found that rats placed a few inches from the neutron source...
...Obstetrician who terms himself "Love's Whitewing, or the D. S. C. of the tender passions," or of the horrible torture Mr. Clippey underwent in his frustrated efforts to "wash his hands," or of the sad plight of "a spinster named Gretel, who wore underclothes made of metal," or chuckle over Mr. Nash's delicate eulogy to a privy. But personally we enjoyed most a little song by Odgen Nash entitled "Quartet For The Sidewalks of New York" from which we quote a stanza...