Word: plasticities
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...Louisiana State University ophthalmologist announced that he had developed a plastic eye which he claimed was lighter, more durable than glass...
...course they did not tell him the bad news right away. First, the good word: he would see out of both eyes once more when famed Plastic Surgeon A. H. McIndoe, who "had yet to score a failure," could give him new lids. He would move his lips, when the new one healed, without frothing like "a perhaps refined stallion." And not until he was almost strong enough to enter what he calls the "Beauty Shop" for skin-grafting was he told: "Next war for you: those hands are going to be something of a problem...
...iron ore, as Henry Ford discovered in the records of Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory while rebuilding it in his Greenfield Village. So Ford gave this line of research in 1929 as a first assignment to Robert Boyer, who worked off & on at it while developing his famed plastic auto body (TIME...
...powder metallurgy (TIME, Sept. 29) it is superior because its extreme purity makes it soft and ductile, almost like a plastic, producing a sort of welding action between the particles...
...last 30 days, use of lignin-itself a plastic as well as a plastic "extender"-has increased fourfold in making airplane pattern plates...