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This curved electrotype plate, being examined before it is fitted on one of the presses, is several steps removed from the linotype. To produce this plate a thin plastic mold is made from the flat page forms, which hold the proofread lines of type ejected by the linotype. The mold is then sprayed with a silver solution, given an electrolysis bath, copper-plated and nickel-plated. That leaves a thin shell of printing surface, which must be backed up and strengthened for the printing press. Hot, molten metal is poured into the shell, which is then rolled into a curved...
...generally solemn-eyed baby. (But in one six-picture sequence, four-month-old Renato obligingly worked himself up to a bellylaugh under his father's skilled direction.) When Editor Mautner heard what Bureau Chief Chinigo had paid for the pictures, he redoubled his congratulations. The price: not one thin lira...
...below freezing) water droplets into snowflakes. The flakes sink to warm lower levels, melt and fall as rain. But if there are too many iodide particles competing for the moisture in the water droplets, the snowflakes formed are too small to fall. They may even rise, drifting off as thin cirrus clouds that never yield any rain...
Americans rarely see truffles except as thin, dark slices in jars of pâté de foie gras, and that is really too bad, says Dr. Donald Philip Rogers of the New York Botanical Garden. There are plenty of fine, strong native truffles in the U.S. The only thing lacking, Dr. Rogers explains in the Garden's current Journal, is truffle-hunting know...
From then on, Carnicero is more like a butcher's cleaver than a butcher. Wind sweeping up the sides of the mountain has stropped the thin icy sides into knifesharp razors...