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...Goodrich Co. will manufacture according to this new method, which in all respects duplicates the electroplating of objects with metals. Only instead of a metallic salt solution (copper sulphate, for example), finely divided rubber is held, not in solution, but in emulsion. The negative wire of an electrical circuit is attached to any desired mold, which is placed in the emulsion. The positive wire is suitably attached to the container. Then the flowing current drives the particles of rubber on to the mold. There is absolute control of the process at all times...
Castor oil was changed quickly from a liquid to a solid; cane sugar was turned white; cane sugar in solution was turned acid; common salt was turned brown and rock salt black-all by momentary exposure to the rays...
...fresh proof that this doctor's interests and understanding can reach from Harold Bell Wright to Anatole France without losing sight of actual human conduct. Let them examine "The Fundamentalists and Modernists of Psychology" and be assured that Dr. Collins takes his Freud with a prodigious grain of salt, practical and historical...
...Bickle, British Columbia, one Dave Irons was walking up a trail with a bag of salt. Every week he came to this lonely patch of hill-furze and spikeberry, the loneliest section of his range, to salt his cows; once he had seen a bear here, and looking at the place where the black beast had lumbered off he saw, as if conjured up by his memory, a bear come out of the woods and make for him. He ran. The bear followed. The cows scattered, uttering mild cries. At the other end of the field stood a pair...
...street; riotous nights in New York when Barymore and his cronies stole the huge plaster sword from the Dewey arch and paraded with it through every bar on Broadway; nights not so riotous but equally fertile in reminiscence, nights that ended with a breakfast of hot water, pepper and salt in default of money to buy anything more filling; this is the kind of a life that everyone yearns for at some time of his life, and, in all candor, would rather read than the novels that used to be labelled 'problem' and are now called "stark and gripping...