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...rubber had no odor, it might find profitable uses in milk cans, beer vats and food containers. Last week from London came news that two chemists of the Rubber Growers' Association had located and practically eliminated rubber's inherent smell...
...Saxon princelings followed not religion like the Egyptians, but sanitation and sentiment, which Christianity was obliged to salute as soon as the sensibilities of churchgoers objected to the smell of corporeal corruption within churches. The hearts of the Popes from Sixtus V (1590) to Benedict XV (1922) are in the church of Sts. Vincent & Anastasius in Rome...
...sister Katherine Alden and her jolly assistant, Edith Farrar, who speaks with a strong Southern accent and is very fond of The Nation. You can tell that there are mice inside when you stand on the front stoop of No. 5825 Drexel Boulevard. But you get used to the smell. Everything is very clean. In immaculate white linen dress Dr. Slye sits behind a rolltop steel desk littered with papers. Dolly, her fat bull terrier bitch (currently ill), wanders in & out. In the next room and upstairs and downstairs are rows and rows of small cages, piled...
Star witness was one William Harrison Haight Jr., 19-year-old student and R. O. T. C. member, who said he had been hired by the U. S. Secret Service to smell out Communism in the University. He had found none in classrooms, but could and did point his finger at 18 students who belonged to the Communistic John Reed Club and the National Student League. Spying on their meetings, he had discerned a trend toward violent revolution at some distant date. But, said he, members rarely mentioned that subject. Their chief interest seemed to be in abolishing...
From Texas last week went news of another milestone passed by the dying Old West. No more will roundups end with the branding fire, the pen filled with frenzied bawling and the smell of burning hair and flesh. By a process introduced by Amarillo's Dr. O. M. Franklin the branding iron is dipped in a chemical, the calf stamped as though it were a cold-storage egg. In a few days the chemical painlessly eats away hair, turns red flesh to white, leaves a clean-cut Bar X or Lazy...