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Zein. The director of the Corn Industries Research Foundation, Chemist Harry Everett Barnard, urged chemists to invent uses for zein, a protein left over as a by-product from the corn-refining industry. Arthur Dehon Little, Cambridge industrial chemist, is already experimenting. Zein resembles cellulose and cellulose derivatives in certain ways. It can be mixed with them, as in plastics. It resists water, decay and flames, has advantages as an adhesive, in sizing paper and textiles, and in finishing leather. Chemist Morris Omansky, Boston consultant, reports zein useful as a reinforcing compound for rubber manufacture, arid Dr. Barnard thinks...
...Next largest women's college: Smith, with 1,974. New York's other big women's college, Barnard...
...offered more spacious quarters. Dr. Kurath is now chairman of Brown's Germanic languages department. The Linguistic Atlas began expediting its work last autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet. He has recorded Maine farmers, Blue Ridge mountaineers, Barnard girls, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Nicholas Murray Butler, the late Poet Vachel Lindsay, the London Naval Conference and the late Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...
...same speaking program as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard College, at a W. O. N. P. R. luncheon in Manhattan was Funnyman Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, To make sure he "wouldn't say nuttin outa line," Durante had prepared his speech in advance. Excerpt: "I simply drove into the subject and when it comes to droving into a subject a Durante admits no peers. I'm not talkin' at this luncheon from hearsay or hunger, but because I was asked to talk. While drovin' and delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty...
...November. President Roosevelt gave Dr. Moley his State Department appointment three days after the inaugural. For his personal staff the new Assistant Secretary picked Arthur Mullen Jr., son of Mr. Roosevelt's Chicago convention floor manager; Celeste Jedel, 22, a pretty honor student out of one of his Barnard classes; Annette Pomerene, 23, a tall, dark, crisp graduate of Hunter College. Celeste Jedel has her desk in his office, is carried on the department's rolls as a member of its legal staff. She used to help Dr. Moley run his Barnard classes, manage his tea parties...