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...good dentifrice "is not gritty and does not contain an acid." Grit test: use a nickel to rub some dentifrice on a piece of glass; if the glass is not scratched, the teeth presumably will...
...contact with the retiring foe. To the British, who had been driving on Akyab for two dreary years, the disease-ridden town at the mouth of the Arakan River seemed like something at the end of a rainbow. Now they were within sight of it, and in position to contain...
Shell-loading by hand is a slow, delicate process in which molten TNT is poured, cooled, hardened, and packed into shells a little at a time to prevent formation of air cavities that may cause premature explosion. Even after such care, many finished shells contain small cavities, must be melted out and repoured...
...pioneering study may lead to explanations of some of the "fundamental riddles of science"; e.g., the nature of life, the meaning of genius, etc. Says he, quoting Samuel Coleridge: "This history of a man for the nine months preceding his birth would probably be far more interesting and contain events of far greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow...
...this plan is a bill published last month by Montana's lean, well-heeled Senator James E. Murray. Murray's bill, released frankly to stimulate discussion, calls for the President to submit to Congress along with his regular budget a National Production and Employment Budget. This would contain a careful estimate of public and private spending in prospect for the coming year and make proposals for bringing the total of both, if deficient, up to the amount necessary to provide full employment. In short, the Murray proposal does not intend to take up economic slack, once formed...