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...mater. The dura mater (tough mother, protector) lies next to the skull and is closely connected thereto. It resembles fine, wetted parchment. Next and attached to this is the arachnoid (cobweb-formed). This is a thin, fibrous membrane, which one might compare to a slice from a rubber sponge. Through its interstices pass vital fluids. It connects the dura mater to the pia (tender, kind) mater which immediately covers the brain itself, and dips down into the latter's creases...
...French have planned a compromise type of expedition, using motor sledges in co-operation with collapsible amphibian planes. Their sledges differ from the caterpillar-tread ones that failed Wilkins, having suction-grip rubber "paws" on a traction wheel extended in front of the sled-runners...
...Affaires? He had been in the service less than a year, was not eligible. Then why not one of the gentlemen at La Rochelle,* St. Etienne, Tananarive**? The Negro protestants feared that their race was to be deprived of its highest diplomatic post now that Liberia has given important rubber concessions to the Firestone Tire and Rubber...
...article, "Do We Need a Mussolini?" contributed to the Sunday Pictorial by Lord Rothermere, its founder, who opined that he could think of three Englishmen of the calibre of II Benito: 1) The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (TIME, March 1, BUSINESS), Chairman of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company and Allied Companies, First Lord of the British Admiralty (1917-18); 2) The Rt. Hon. Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank, First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11); 3) Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...these pistons would perform any prodigies in the American Legion track meet in Boston last week. Mr. Hubbard needs to be out of doors to run well. He does not feel free or limber under a roof. His great black legs also prefer spikes and a cinder track to rubber sneakers and a smooth armory floor. Yet Mr. Hubbard, who holds the world's broad-jump record, won the 50-yard dash, finished second in the low hurdles, and rounded off his day by sprinting 65 yards in 6 4/5 seconds breaking a world's record* that has stood...