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...more elaborate is illustrated by that brilliant but elusive lady who flashes about the dilettant magazines in purple seas of color-reproduction under the pseudonym of "Fish." The other illustrator, also an Englishwoman, is Hope Weston, who says she has tried to dip her paintbrush in star stuff to do justice to the "illumined unreason" of the Persian singer...
...Bureau of Animal Industry, a subdivision of the Department of Agriculture, provides cattle dipping vats in regions which are infested with what is known as the "fever-tick." To prevent spread of the disease cattle-raisers are required to "dip" their stock. The penalty for failure to do so is arrest and a fine. In parts of the South cattlemen object to this regulation. Rounding up cattle to have them dipped is a nuisance. The stockmen also claim that some of their cattle are injured by plunging through the vats and others by swallowing the disinfectant...
Today both the University and Freshman squads were allowed a dip in the water at Ocean Beach. They then returned to the Pequot Casino in New London and proceded back to Red Top. The Yale squads took a sail today on W. Ferguson's yacht "Christabel." The red and blue flags marking the lanes for the crews in the four-mile race were tied out by the chairman of the regatta committee...
...lead of 10 feet in the first twenty strokes. Rowing 36 to the minute Harvard passed into the second half-mile over two and one-half lengths ahead. Soon after this Stroke Newton dropped the beat to 32 and the boat forged ahead with every powerful well-executed dip of the oars. Entering the last mile Newton again shoved the stroke up to between 35 and 36, a pace which was kept up to the finish. At the mile Harvard was seven lengths ahead, and at the finish line from 14 to 16 lengths separated the two shells...
...collections is the case of graphite and clay in their crude forms. Here are shown the various stages in the manufacture of lead pencils, graphite, electrodes and lubricants. The materials are also displayed which illustrate the manufacture of the Welsbach light. Samples of the lighting fluid and the mantle dip, which renders the mantle incandescent, are shown, beside the cotton webbing in the mantle form before it is dipped in the solution of light-giving oxides...