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...tools in the hands of man which enable a variety of surplus products of the soil to be transformed through organic chemistry into raw materials usable in industry. . . . It is nature's plan. . . . It demands no appropriations from the public treasury. . . . It depends upon individual initiative and sweat of the brow...
...questions went from bad to worse. The brilliant young questioner rubbed his bony knuckles in ghoulish glee as a cold sweat broke out on the brow of the harried candidate. Finally came the climax, a question to which no-one in the world knows the answer, except, perhaps, one member of the examining committee...
...tinker, took that first radiotherm to the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, where Dr. Simpson could experiment with it. It cured cases of syphilis (thus making Professor von Jauregg's troublesome malaria treatment obsolete), gonorrhea, rheumatism, colds and other ailments. But when the feverish patient broke into a sweat, the high frequency current tended to arc, thus burning his wet flesh. Mr. Kettering overcame that difficulty by fanning the patient dry with a blast of hot air from a new air conditioner which he was developing...
...interrupted Stockholder Leopold Coshland, "but there comes a time when a man outlives his usefulness. . . . There are 44,000 men getting 67? an hour by the sweat of their brows in the plants of the corporation while three officers draw...
...them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump of greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes and saw it at my very feet, how I leaped like a man shot, backward and high in the air, away from that repulsive killer. I shouted, a cold yell of horror, and my heart filled...