Huge name in glass

Usage examples of corning.

The professional politicians corning to the fore in the twenties and thirties, though sometimes self-made, were seldom ordinary.

But as far as we are concerned, I am pretty sure of being able to pick up enough truly able-bodied seamen paid off from King's ships with the corning of peace to form a strong crew, capable of fighting the ship.

He put his long, lupine face so close to Kurgan's that Kurgan could smell the mingled scent of clove oil and burnt musk corning off him in waves.

Tommy's searching eyes soon caught sight of the double black line of coaxial cables corning to the surface a few feet to his left, umbilical cords leading to feed-through connectors mounted on the curved top of the fuselage toward the tail section, transmission lines that led to the 2-meter and 15-20-40-meter antennas mounted on the 40-foot aluminum tower close by on the forested mountainside.

Certainly it had nothing to do with the ship's name: one could not spend twenty years at sea, first in the Royal Navy and then in the Merchant Service, without corning across some of the most singular names in the world.

Condon was a distinguished American physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, where he directed a controversial Air Force-funded scientific study of UFOs).