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...operator, explains that he protects bacteria by enclosing them in a tiny air-filled cell that fits on the microscope's stage. The cell has two windows, one on the top, the other on the bottom, which are covered with collodion film less than four-millionths of an inch thick. The windows are so small (four-thousandths of an inch in diameter) that this gossamer stuff has enough strength to resist the suck of the vacuum. So the cell keeps its moist air and the bacteria...
...flack is a plastic-bottomed job with the four-inch base so common to American-made flacks. It has, of course, three speeds but no reverse, and if a mistake is made, there you are. I frankly was surprised to find that your man had noticed the flacks at all. In the past few months I have had very little need for flackery and had put the flacks in a closet along with my stults, which I haven't used for years. Incidentally, I do have four stults...
...coffee cup ("a new coffee: Chock-Full-o'-Booze"), Gleason squarely faced the camera and continued: "We have a creed tonight, and the creed is honesty . . . Last week we did a show that laid the biggest bomb-it would make the H-bomb look like a two-inch salute...
...tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly. But the Queen, exercising restraint for perhaps the only time in her career, said the necklace was too expensive...
Highlights of the B.A.A. Games were John Thomas' 7 foot, 3 inch high jump that now is only second best in the world; a new indoor record of 2:07.9 by smooth-pacing Ernie Cunliffe of Stanford; and the victory in the Hunter Mile of Hungary's Istvan Roszavolgi, who arrived in the country early Saturday morning...