Word: raws
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last two courts of the season were held at Buckingham Palace. The weather, which throughout Ascot was scorching hot, became raw cold overnight ; but in no sense were the brilliant functions at the Palace impeded...
Rayon was invented some forty years ago by a Frenchman, the Count de Chardonnet, who manufactured a lustrous fibre by treating cotton linters with nitric acid, and pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw material, and other important improvements effected in the process. At first, rayon was known as "artificial silk," but so swiftly has its output increased that its trade name of rayon is now thoroughly established...
...Raw...
...hope this may prove to be the work of some raw reporter and that you are gentlemen enough to apologize for it. I notice you do not "Point with Pride" to this paragraph...
...newsmagazine does not consider its paragraphs about Mrs. Wilson to be "raw," but does nevertheless-out of respect for the feelings of Subscriber Le Movne-subscribe to a promise not to trespass in that direction again...