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This was not new, for natural "green-sands" and artificial zeolites have long been used for such softening. But a slightly more complex resin of the same type proved able to draw even sodium atoms out of solution, replace them with hydrogen. This merely substituted acid for salt, but still...
The actual demonstration of the many complicated emergency devices was supervised by Captain James Kennedy of the Boston Fire Department. Among the pieces of apparatus he explained were a block for raising El cars to release persons pinned underneath, the gas mask and its proper use, and a combination inhalator...
At the downstairs bar, a 16-year-old busboy stood on a bench to replace a light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl...
World-Deep. Professor Hocking's subject is the spiritual task of the churches in wartime. He says: "Men have labored a thousand years to make civilization stable; war shows the frailty of their wisdom. War is thus the great evil, and the great revealer of flaws; it is the...
An absence of judgment-passing does not, however, imply a pretense of artificial objectivity. Some of the practices of the Rockefellers and the Hewitts were felonics by any civilized standards. But, not content with mere condemnation, the authors of "The Age of Enterprise" make a stab at explanation. In their...