Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abstruse equations of quantum theory. But Dr. Freeman is also a teacher (at Central College, Chicago), would like to explain science to the average citizen, dispel its "mysteries and marvels." In his latest book, Invitation to Experiment, published last week (Dutton; $2.50), he lures his readers into kitchen and bathroom, where they can dope out for themselves "the things that make the universe tick." With clever drawings and photographs, he simplifies molecular motion, gravitation, optics, everything in physics up to (but not including) relativity. Samples...
...second-class railroad ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants, he set out for Rio to study art. Kindly professors at Rio's School of Fine Arts offered to give him free lessons. At 15 milreis ($3.75) a month Candido Portinari took up lodgings in a bathroom, slept in the tub, had to get up at 5 a.m. so that other boarders could take their showers...
Mostly she writes about her three children and Clem, her husband, who is scarcely more than a head poked out the bathroom door to answer questions opportunely ; yet a pervasive presence in Mrs. Mini ver's life, like the sun. "Clem caught her eye across the table. It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch...
...month begging motorists not to drive more than 35 miles an hour (he never speeds himself), warning middle-aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places in the world is a bathroom. But Dr. Dublin has an answer even for that one-an article called "How to Take a Bath and Live...
Died. Walter Jodok Kohler (of Kohler), 65, bathroom fixture manufacturer, onetime Governor of Wisconsin (1929-30); of coronary embolism; in Kohler...