About two centimetres of the powdered leaf sat in the base of the glass.

NEWYORKER: Naima

Childs had planned for an ingenious coating of prismatic glass, which would animate the base on the exterior, but it was recently jettisoned, on practical grounds, and no one is talking about what will take its place.

NEWYORKER: Shaping The Void

The hotel, all brown marble and glass with a few sad ferns in the atrium, seems an unlikely base for a terrorist cell, and the supposed terrorists were an unlikely bunch.

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This glass specialist had no research, manufacturing, or marketing expertise in integrated circuits, and so, no base for competing with those who did.

FORBES: The Trials Of Amory Houghton Jr.

Scientific glass--for beakers, test tubes and flasks--has led Corning into a small but important base in medical products.

FORBES: The Trials Of Amory Houghton Jr.