Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first...
...Robert's horse was originally called Demijohn, or John. A Negro groom, leading him from his stable into the sunlight, was so delighted with the sheen of his coat that he cried: "Doggone, hoss-you ain't no plain John! You'se John the Baptist." John the Baptist's half-sister is Salome...
Beside a rural filling station six miles west of Clarksburg, W. Va. one day last week, some 200 public officials and plain citizens gathered around a square little building with slanting roof and shiny coat of white & orange paint. A driving windstorm had kept many a countryman from attending the ceremony. A storm of public ridicule had presumably made the State Health Commissioner and an Assistant Surgeon General of the U. S. cancel their scheduled appearances. Occasion was the dedication of the 100,000th sanitary pit privy built by relief workers in West Virginia...
...many of his contemporaries in early 19th Century Philadelphia, Stephen Girard was an old codger in an unfashionable full-skirted coat and pigtail who frequently jostled his way to High Street Market to sell baskets of eggs and vegetables from his farm in Passyunk Township, three miles southwest of the city. Solid burghers, however, recognized him as the man who paid one-tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists...
Harry Aloysius McGuire wore the first coonskin coat ever seen on the campus of Notre Dame University, edited the student Scholastic, was suspended for burlesquing the prefect of discipline, became class poet, class orator and was graduated in 1925 with the highest grades ever recorded at the University. On Commencement Day Notre Dame's president was heard to mutter that he was relieved to see the last of Harry McGuire...