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...electrically charged. It was found possible to immerse pieces of metal in a bath containing these particles, charge the metal with a current of opposite sign to the charge in the rubber, and "rubber plate" objects just as silverware is electroplated. Deposits of rubber a fifth of an inch thick were obtained. Vulcanized, the deposits were found to adhere more tightly than ever. It was predicted that fabrics could be similarly treated and the rubber-garment business revolutionized.?Dr. S. E. Sheppard, Rochester...
PAUL BUNYAN-James Stevens - Knopf ($2.50). Among the French Canadian loggers that swung axes, mattocks and murderous steam-warped wooden pitchforks upon the troops of Queen Victoria in the Papineau Rebellion of 1837, there roared a thick-thewed, bellicose, hairy giant named Paul Bunyon. At his skull-crushing feats in that episode, and his later accomplishments as a boss logger, lumber camp historians have marveled ever since...
...Papers of the Hearst and Chicago Tribune persuasion): "Hot stuff! Sensational! Lay it on thick; run it every day! Great headlines! Maybe it isn't the best way of reforming the world, but for the present it's the best way to sell lots of newspapers." ¶(Gum-chewers'sheetlets): "Meat! Meat for us! Get the pictures, pictures, pictures! But of course we can't keep Chapman on the front page very long. There'll be a dozen crimes as good tomorrow...
...quantity of really eminent professors is limited; the more students in a college the less opportunity any student has to receive from these eminent men a stimulation and assistance adapted to his individual needs. Enter the machinery as a substitute and the tutorial plan as a remedy for the thick-fingered bunglings of mechanical...
...first play was produced. The gentry scorned the theatres of the time and it was not until 1844 that 'nice people' could be persuaded to attend. They were lured inside the doors by that moral production, 'The Drunkard, or, The Fallen Saved'. After that moral productions followed thick and fast, the most famous being 'Ten Nights in a Bar Room...