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Their unique experiment of mixing iron oxide and aluminum powder may not have added as much to the advancement of knowledge as some other M.I.T. research, but their application of lecture-room principles to concrete situations was consistent with the Institute's philosophy of making research an important part of education...
...standard was still a working field dog, the heavy mane around chest and neck protected heart and lungs while swimming in icy water. Shaved hindquarters aided swimming, while tufts of hair on legs and hips warmed the joints where blood runs close to the skin. The fancy topknot and powder-puff tail helped mark the animals when working in dense underbrush...
...Jasper is blasted from the earth, crushed to powder, washed to rid it of some impurities, then mixed into a special oil solution that floats the fine particles of iron to the surface. They are concentrated into small pellets by centrifuge...
...least likely duos in cinematic history: Hollywood's Marilyn Monroe and Britain's Sir Laurence Olivier. Together in public for the first time, Marilyn, explosively protruding from a black velvet sheath, and Sir Laurence, with the ironic aplomb of a gentleman accidentally trapped in a powder room, confirmed the fact (TIME, Jan. 30) that they will co-star in a film version of Playwright Terence Rattigan's London stage hit, The Sleeping Prince. Producers: Marilyn and Sir Laurence. Director: Olivier. Breathed Marilyn: "My hope and dream was to have him ..." Sir Laurence allowed that he would like...
...would now be able to take baths regularly! For their part, they want our poor to be like Frenchwomen. A Frenchwoman, as you know, takes a bath but twice in her life: once when she enters it, and once when she leaves it. In between times she uses talcum powder. It's a well-known fact that the Republicans have a vested interest in the talcum powder industry...