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...thought of the ready bed and the tidy bureau drawers waiting in his House room. Visions of sweating Freshmen rummaging through trunks to find that dress shirt that just had to go at the bottom of the first drawer filled his mind, and even the heat could not melt his core of superciliousness when he stalked past the bewildered Freshman about to sign his fifth pressing contract under pressure from three burly salesmen. The last salesman to put his foot in Vag's door had left three toes on the sill; now they let him alone...
Concealment v. Confusion. World War I's camouflage was chiefly front-line camouflage, designed to fool ground observation or relatively slow-moving aerial observers, and so aimed primarily at total concealment wherein an objective such as a battery of 75-mm. artillery would melt so unobtrusively into its surroundings that the enemy would be unable to notice it. In this respect front-line camouflage has scarcely changed at all. But the coming of the bomber plane has started something new in rear areas. To meet that danger the modern camoufleur has to think of the necessity not of complete...
...salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent. Of glacial origin, Lake Pend d'Oreille is a favorite summer resort for the Northwest, is one of the largest U.S. fresh-water lakes (35 miles long, six to 15 miles wide). At either end, broad grass-lush prairies melt into smooth bathing beaches; on the east, steep cliffs stand sheer from the water, mount on up into the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains. The lake is fish-chocked: trout, land-locked salmon, whitefish. In summer, scores of pleasure boats, bright with paint, nose over...
Induction currents, engineers are finding, provide a quick, simple, easily controlled way of heating or melting metals and of concocting alloys. An induction furnace is simple-it is merely a transformer whose core (or "secondary") is replaced by the metal "charge" to be heated. The coiled wires surrounding the charge carry alternating current, usually of high frequency-changing the direction of its flow not 60 times a second (as in ordinary household AC) but several thousand times a second. As the secondary current induced in the metal charge stabs back & forth, the metal's resistance creates great heat...
...conditioning units are rated by ton capacity: one-ton machine removes enough heat to melt one ton of ice every 24 hours...