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There was just one thing for which Mrs. Borah, small blonde daughter of Idaho's late Governor and Senator William John McConnell, said she would search Europe for her husband: a new recipe for onion soup. Senator Borah likes onion soup, but can never get the right kind. Once Mrs. Borah thought she had found the perfect recipe in Atlantic City, only to have the Senator grumble over the pepper and cheese proportions when she made it in their modest Washington apartment where, unlike other senatorial families, they live within their official income...
...Eckener left for Washington with Commander Hunsaker to spend several days in search of permanent hangar and airport sites between Baltimore and Richmond. Weather conditions would render useless any site north of Baltimore, he was convinced. At Lakehurst, preparations were being made to welcome the Graf on her proposed triangular trip from Germany to South America to the U. S. this...
...what is lost by general mediocrity as is the case in other sports. And a strictly mediocre crew will do a better job than a mediocre crew in which one or two excellent oarsmen upset the efficiency. The result is that two methods have been recognized in the search for highest efficiency...
...search was begun by Harvard astronomers for old photographic plates which may contain pictures of the new planet. If these are discovered additional material will be available from which may be calculated the precise position of X and its orbit...
Research workers, practical men, have ever been on the search for means to utilize waste material. "Bagasse," the refuse material left after the sap has been removed from sugar cane, used to present a problem because it was expensive to dispose of. This is now being made into board called Celotex, which is used as the plaster base and insulator. Reversing the old order, sugar is now the by-product in some places where cane is planted to yield the board material. Cornstalks are used to produce paper and a kind of lumber, "Maizewood"' (TIME, Dec. 24, 1928). Straw...