Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ohio. For more than a year they had been driving through the Allegheny foothills this spur that would cut the cost of coal in the Mahoning Valley 40? a ton. The laborers stopped to read some notices posted overnight by a U. S. marshal. No work was done that clay or the next or the next. The notices were a temporary injunction commanding Montour R. R. to cease & desist from all construction. Though few of the construction gang knew it, their work was halted by President Atleroury of Pennsylvania R. R. and his chief competitor, President William...
...development glimmers through his words with an agonizing inconstancy that is almost caprice. The spirit of Gertrude Stein has been caught most surely in the plastic arts with which she has so deep an affinity; she comes to us most directly through the portrait of Picasso and the dominating clay of Jo Davidson...
...violations. Sharing the same cell, Bigelow and Ward soon became fast friends. They talked over the details of Bigelow's business, discussed ways & means of running it in the future. Said Bigelow to his friend: "I'm going to remold you. You're made of good clay." After eight months, Bigelow was released on parole. Before leaving he made Ward promise to look him up at the end of his term, asked what job he would want. Replied Ward: "Your job, H. H." "All right if you can earn it," said Bigelow. Next year Ward went...
Professor Willstätter's method of segregating enzymes is beautifully simple. The enzymes are colloids. White clay (kaolin) filters absorb certain kinds of colloids, alumina filters certain other kinds. Enzymes, which pass through both alumina and clay filters, have a third set of characteristics. By shrewd use of colloidal physics and chemistry Professor Willstatter segregated the three important enzymes of pancreatic fluid-lipase which acts on fats, amylase which acts on carbohydrates, trypsin which acts on proteins...
...over dirt paths about the University will no longer be necessitated, for 75 per cent of these paths have already been replaced by paving during the summer. No longer will the students have to traverse the slippery boards to keep their ankles out of the wet gravel and slimy clay, for it is expected that all the paths will be replaced before the end of the year. It was learned that the cost of constructing the new walks is offset by the cost of putting down the boardwalks in the fall and taking them up in the spring...