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...comedy stage his naturally loses a bit of its original frankness at the hands of Columbia Studios, but the basic story of two would-be career girls from the midwest turned loose in a Hollywood version of old New York leaves plenty of room for the comic situations that develop...
...Neuwirth is also using the egg-culture method in an attempt to produce the world's first vaccine against trachoma, an infectious eye disease common throughout the Middle East; and he is trying to develop a bacteriophage ("bacteria-eater") solution to treat those already afflicted. Last month the Iranian Government gave Dr. Neuwirth its first scientific decoration...
...continues, intensifies, and plans for the indefinite future. The total effect is one of confusion to the individual and an overall diffusion of energy. There is a fundamental friction between the military habit of mind, and the approach to thought and action which a liberal college education aims to develop. The one is obedience and a stifling of the individual for practical expedience; the other is experiment, trial and error growth, necessarily inefficient in the short run. The student who tries to combine the two in an ever more divergent path finds himself in a continual quandary. On the other...
...said: "Well, that's three I've seen go-the Lex, the Yorktown and now this baby." A thin-faced chief petty officer said: "I'm thinking of those boys on Guadal." The ship's executive officer said merely: "We'll just have to develop better methods of detection...
Foamglas, developed by Pittsburgh Corning Corp., is utterly unlike ordinary glass. It not only floats but is black in color, opaque, weighs about one-fifteenth as much as ordinary glass and can easily be sawed, drilled or shaped without chipping or shattering. To make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first...