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...Iowa State College a professor of chemical engineering predicted the self-dusting chair-a plastic product with a slight negative charge of electricity which would repel dust particles...
Geologists are fascinated by the difference between the two great oceans. One of the more daring, Alfred Wegener of Germany, proffered an alluring theory to explain it. According to Wegener, the interior of the earth is a thick, hot, plastic substance. The continents, in large part comparatively light granite, float on it like icebergs. Under the oceans, the earth's crust is largely basalt, which is heavier than granite and inclined to sink...
Behind reinforced concrete walls in the Dunbar Geophysical Laboratory. Professor Bridgman has duplicated pressures existing 200 miles below the earth's surface, forces, however, that are minute in comparison with those existing at the center of the earth. Under such conditions, solid rock becomes highly plastic and considerably more dense...
Listeners who can bear with such brash trash are rewarded with a program as carefully arranged (generally by musicianly Mrs. Robbins) as a symphony orchestra's. During dinnertime, from 6:30 to 7, there is "gastric plastic"-soft, slow stuff; for the last hour the show gets hot with blues, boogie, chamber-music jazz, and jazz antiques. And at 9 p.m., when the last "fetching etching" has been sent, Robbins dreamily concludes: "This is your professor of thermodynamics taking a tacit for 24. We're clearing the joint of counterpoint, but we'll be back next black...
Northrop was persuaded to go out on the limb because of its experience in working with light materials. Designed by a crew of engineers, the Northrop arm is a plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...