Word: coppering
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...reputation of Friar Roger Bacon (1214-1294) as a scientist was burnished lately when University of Pennsylvania chemists obtained salts of copper by one of his cryptic formulae (TiME, Dec. 13). But last week Friar...
...originated. The two set out on the same boat from Newport, Rhode Island, each with $87. Shipping as deck boys, they went through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Seattle. They took to the water again, journeying on to Alaska, spending Christmas day in Cordova, loading copper in snow-covered sacks...
...copper centime coins will gradually be withdrawn from circulation and replaced by nickel and aluminum. The bronze francs will go out side by side with paper money, which they partially replace...
...became apprentice, to acquire practical experience, in a brokerage firm; met Charles Hayden, 20-year-old ticker-boy-graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with him founded Hayden, Stone & Co. (of late $30,000,000 working capital), to which, say financiers, the greatest group of copper producing companies in the world owes its existence. Vessels of the Eastern S. S. Co., and the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Lines carried flags at half mast in tribute to him as Chairman of Board of Directors; so did the Amoskeag Mfg. Co. (woolens), of which he was a trustee. Patron...
...week, at a meeting held in Dr. Newbold's memory, University of Pennsylvania professors verified their dead colleague's translations. A chemist in their number, Dr. Hiram S. Lukens, had taken to his laboratory a quaint recipe by which Friar Bacon had said he obtained salts of copper. Dr. Lukens had never seen such a formula before, but it worked. In announcing his success, Dr. Lukens made a grave omission, failing to name the mediaeval ingredients. Bat's blood? Sea water? Pig bristles? Crocodile teeth...