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HEYDAY [6 records]

Record 1 2024-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chocolate and Confectionery
CONT

The late 1950s into the early 1980s was the heyday of starch jelly candy production across a broad spectrum of U. S. [United States] candy plants. During this time frame, three significant technology introductions changed the nature of making starch jelly candies : high-speed starch moguls, high-amylose cornstarch and high volume continuous cookers.

OBS

Examples of starch jelly candies are gum drops, spice drops and jujubes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Confiserie et chocolaterie
CONT

Les bonbons gélifiés à base d'amidon utilisent de l'amidon alimentaire modifié comme agent gélifiant au lieu de la gélatine ou de la pectine et peuvent provenir du maïs, des pommes de terre ou du blé pour créer une gamme de textures allant de molles à gommeuses.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-09-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
DEF

One who takes a ride in an automobile driven by another person, merely for his own pleasure or on his own business, and without making any return or conferring any benefit on the automobile driver.

CONT

In its heyday the regime of occupancy duties was extended even to motorcars and other conveyances.... In the operation of the vehicle... the driver must observe the general standard of reasonable care for gratuitous and fare-paying passengers alike.

OBS

gratuitous passenger: Par opposition à "fare-paying passenger".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)

Spanish

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Record 3 2001-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
CONT

The melon's roots can be traced back to varieties brought over by French settlers in the seventeenth century. In its heyday, half a century ago, the Montreal melon was the Queen of Melons. Its delicious, green flesh was prized in the fancy dining rooms of New York and Boston, where customers would pay a big price for the pleasure of eating just a single juicy slice. A 1938 handbook Vegetables of New York claimed that "handled skillfully and intelligently, the melon produces the largest fruits of its type in American cultivation. "A single melon could easily reach 15 pounds! And its unique spicy flavour was the reason it was also known as "The Montreal Nutmeg Melon. "

CONT

Unfortunately, it is all too easy to lose varieties which contain unique genes; for instance the "Montreal melon", once renowned for its special taste and sold in New York for exorbitant prices, has disappeared without a trace.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-12-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glazing Materials (Constr.)
  • Ornamental Glassware
DEF

trademark - used for a thick homogeneous opaque structural glass used especially for ornamental finish on surfaces exposed to the weather.

CONT

Introduction to Vitrolite Structural Glass. The use of Vitrolite and other pigmented structural glass reached its heyday in the 1920's and 1930's. This handsome and versatile building material, so much a part of the Art Deco and Art Moderne architectural styles, was used primarily for interior and exterior wall surfacing.

OBS

structural glass: Glass panels used as a wall finish; types include Carrara glass, Vitrolite; common 1900-40; typically applied with asphalt mastic, sometimes with natural finish aluminum trim.

OBS

The Preservation of Historic Pigmented Structural Glass (Vitrolite and Carrara Glass).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux verriers (Construction)
  • Verrerie d'art
OBS

Les industries CANTEX Inc., entrepreneur général, sont surtout spécialisées dans la construction de verre architectural, murs-rideaux, façades de magasin et toutes autres spécifications concernant la vitrerie.

Key term(s)
  • Vitrolite

Spanish

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Record 5 1998-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

Occasionally used to mean a DECtape, as opposed to a MACROTAPE. A DECtape is a small reel about four inches in diameter of magnetic tape about an inch wide. Unlike those for today's macrotapes, microtape drivers allowed random access to the data. In their heyday they were used in pretty much same way one would now use a floppy disk : as a small, portable way to save and transport files and programs. Apparently the term microtape was actually the official term used within DEC for these tapes until someone coined the word "DECtape, "which of course sounded sexier to the marketroids...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique
DEF

Désigne une DECtape [=une bande magnétique de DEC] par opposition à une macrotape. Une DEC tape est une petite bobine d'environ 10 centimètres de diamètre contenant une bande magnétique d'environ un pouce. Contrairement aux pilotes logiciels disponibles sur les macrotapes d'aujourd'hui, les pilotes de micro-bandes permettaient l'accès direct aux données [...]. À leur sommet, elles étaient utilisées comme les disquettes d'aujourd'hui pour transporter et sauvegarder commodément les fichiers et les programmes.

Spanish

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Record 6 1998-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

In the heyday of its natural gas boom, the Netherlands had been known for its high social security floor, which made work almost optional for many people.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

À l'époque bénie où le gaz naturel était le fleuron de leur prospérité, les Pays-Bas étaient réputés pour la générosité de leur système de protection sociale, qui rendait le travail presque facultatif pour une partie non négligeable de la population active.

Spanish

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