Word: extractionation
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In Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he...
Prophet Of Gloom Note: Word comes to us of a respectable middle-aged maid of Teutonic extraction who suddenly gave notice to her employers the other day after having lived with them in peace and quiet these twenty years. It seems she has her mind set on returning to Germany...
Explosive from Corn, Professor Edward Bartow, president of the American Chemical Society, has 25 lb. of inositol which he keeps locked in a safe at University of Iowa. Inositol is an alcohol which occurs exiguously in the seeds of certain plants. Treated with nitric acid it forms a solid substance...
The dental profession wonders where the author of the following lines, ''like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient" (TIME, Dec 23, p 26) has his dental work done. Let me inform him that modern scientific methods have eliminated all...
Steigel, a Bavarian, came here, set up a glass factory in Manheim, Pennsylvania, in 1765, and employed only glassblowers of German extraction. Caspar Wistar, from whom the Wistarburg glass takes it name, founded his factory in 1738 in Salem County, New Jersey.