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...have tried it seem to find it satisfactory. They say it is not quite as easy or as quick to put on as Wishbone's advertising would have them believe, and that it is much better if a roommate is around to help wrestle with the elusive plastic curlers...
...Besides plastic combs and nylon stockings America also sends us many thick, colorful weeklies. The one . . . best known here is the magazine TIME. Since the Dutch press is still fighting the paper shortage and therefore cannot keep us well enough informed, many look for additional news in the columns of this attractive magazine...
...checks up on the behavior of blood vessels, which register emotional upsets by expanding and contracting abnormally. Tulane's Drs. George E. Burch and Clarence T. Ray, searching for a simple means of registering psychosomatic disturbances "objectively," used a "plethysmograph." The subject sticks his finger tip into a plastic cup, and the machine records the finger's alternate swelling and contraction by measuring the tiny changes in the cup's air volume...
Woodward has already squirted thin liquid streams of the molecules into warm air, in long siken threads. And a transparent plastic film eight ten thousandths of an inch thick has been made from the new material, by pouring solutions of the analog on a frozen surface...
...studied sculpture in Paris, gave him a few pointers, and Neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson too was moved to smile on Daniel's work. That was enough. Writes Margaret: "With that fine conviction in their own capacity to produce the best . . . Concord commissioned its youthful representative of the plastic art to model a statue of a Minute...