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Working with Technician Otto Post, he put together an intricate array of glassware that looks like a crystal pipe organ for Queen Mab's palace. It makes no music, but clicks monotonously every 30 to 120 seconds when it tilts to pour off some of its mixture. This C.C.D. machine works on the principle of liquid-liquid extraction: two substances are not likely to be equally soluble in two different solvents. And if the solvents are not soluble in each other, they can be separated. Whatever is dissolved in them will be separated also...
With 82% of India's people still living outside the cities and towns, this growth has required an ingenious array of promotional devices to reach the villagers. Agents are trained to sell "life insurance for living" with policies that pay for retirement or for the marriage of a daughter as well as death benefits. The company explains the value of insurance with short feature films, primarily for rural audiences, that have simple plots, amateur talent, and sound tracks in the 13 main Indian languages. Itinerant bards, telling stories and singing insurance commercials, wander from village to village. Everywhere possible...
Scrimmage Thursday against the Business School's International array of experienced players indicated the Crimson hasn't yet licked its major faults either...
While he approached art as a writer, not as an expert, he marshaled an impressive array of abilities. He had good taste, an educated sensibility, an unusual breadth and warmth of appreciation, a scrupulous fairness. Recalling some of his critiques, his colleagues chose as one of their favorites a passage from a story on Painter John Chumley's work: "A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday's laughter. And the open window of an abandoned house fills one canvas with mystery, like a mouth that has much...
...cliche, they are the ones who have the last word. Farthest removed from the public are the comparative pathologists, who concern themselves with such basic problems as what disease is and why organisms grow old. Whatever part of their specialty they practice, pathologists learn to use a dazzling array of gadgets designed to help them find answers to forbiddingly difficult questions...