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...richness and variety of its slang is Winchester, whose famed founder, William, of Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...Infra-red radiation tests show that dehydrated castor oil is a close chemical neighbor of tung oil, and, like tung oil, it yields a desirable, minutely wrinkled film when it dries. Some tung is produced in the U. S., but the vast bulk is still imported from the troubled Orient. Chemist John Carl Weaver of Sherwin-Williams Co. declared last week that dehydrated castor oil should help relieve the U. S. of dependence on foreign supplies not only of tung oil but of perilla and linseed oils as well...
...Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Savannah, Jacksonville-and ends in the Atlantic (see chart}. Texas' McDonald Observatory, which is 50 miles from the shadow path, will send a party into the path near the Mexican border to study infra-red radiation from the bright ring around the moon...
...Patent Office are sheaves of plans for the use of television in war-reconnaissance planes which will transmit the lay of enemy land as they fly over it, spot hits for the artillery, televise through clouds and fog by picking up earth-radiated infra-red rays, be guided to landings by televised pictures of the field...
...display explains the uses of X-ray and surface photography, and of ultraviolet and infra-red light, in the determination of the authorship of paintings, the study of painting styles, the detection of forgery, and the restoration of damaged pictures. The University now has X-ray films available for study of more than 3,200 paintings in the United States and Europe...