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Little Adults. Later, she added regular articles on marriage problems and housing ("for they all affect children, too"), children's books (which are pretested on young readers), movies and records. Editor Littledale also keeps a supervisory finger on Parents' byproduct publications: Children's Digest, 21 (for young men), Compact (for girls), Your New Baby and Baby Care Manual (for new mothers...
Retorted Langsner: adventure for its own sake is not enough-it should be a byproduct of exploration. "In the long run, the exploring artist returns with more loot because he sees more; he sees more because his sense of purpose alerts him to what he himself can find rather than what will turn up by accident...
...begun his own experiments with the creosote bush (Larrea divaricata), an acrid, sticky evergreen that thrives in millions of acres of drought-stricken wasteland. Last winter, using a distilling apparatus made from junkheap parts, Duisberg showed how to turn the hardy bush into a palatable stock feed.* With one byproduct already available to increase the margin of profit (nordihydroguaiaretic acid, a fat preservative that brings $35 a lb.), he managed to develop another: a quick-drying varnish that is almost certain to be salable. Other promising plants on Duisberg's list...
...nearly the temperature at the surface of the sun; the powdered aluminum, its cooler flame brilliant enough to give a bystander a sunburn in a matter of seconds, produces an estimated 5,500°, about twice the temperature of steel at white heat. The formidable torches are merely incidental byproducts of basic research. Under Navy sponsorship, the Temple scientists have been learning everything they can about producing and controlling extremely high temperatures, compiling information that should be valuable in fields as varied as atomic energy and jet propulsion. The Temple Research Institute's boss, Dr. Aristid V. Grosse, says...
...byproduct of this doctrine led naturally to betting and to the shocking episode of the widespread bribery of basketball players in New York . . . [see SPORT...