Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pontalite" is a new plastic, known chemically as methyl methacrylate polymer, which is as clear as optical glass, only half as heavy as common glass, flexible, non-shattering, able to withstand tensions of over four tons per square inch. It can be sawed, cut, drilled, polished, cast into molds. "The transparency, brilliance, strength and permanence of Pontalite are unusual, and the absence of color permits fabrication into delicate tinted shades."-Dr. Harry Robert Dittmar of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
This Badge was designed by Graham Carey '14, in keeping with the seventeenth century commemorative medals. The artist actually cut the die from which the medal was struck, instead of modelling it in a plastic for transferring to the die by mechanical means, according to modern methods...
...pseudohermaphrodite into line with its glandular sex. In no case on record, though, has the patient subsequently succeeded in producing a child. In glandular males, undescended testicles are brought from the abdomen into the scrotum. If a phallus exists, bound down by adhesions or imbedded in flesh, delicate plastic work may free it sufficiently for male sex activity. That was the procedure in the case of Czechoslovakia's Zdenka Koubkova...
...anything expensive crystals will, can be inexpensively manufactured in any size. Actual cost figures will probably not be available until large-scale equipment is set up. Developed by Physicist Edwin H. Land, senior partner of an independent Boston laboratory, Polaroid's synthetic organic crystals are bound in a plastic film of cellulose acetate. The tiny crystals are pulled into parallel alignment by stretching the film. The material polarizes about 99.9% of the transmitted light. Other uses for Physicist Land's discovery: three-dimensional (stereoscopic) movies in color;- sunglasses which filter out glare without discoloring the view; transparent models...
...Langer must know how to make a coherent picture out of thousands of disconnected facts, how to critically appraise his field, and how to acquaint others with his knowledge. Only a flesh and blood individual, trained by flesh and blood teachers, can knead the plastic and indigestible thing called knowledge into beneficial roughage. His skill is acquired through an active mind as well as learned lessons. Because of deficiencies in the English language which even Copey has been unable to rectify, this part of a Langer must be described as personality, inspiration, genuineness. When it is missing, students might just...