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...laboratory practice, a light beam's "fence" is a crystal, and the gaps which comb light are a crystal's parallel planes of cleavage. Polaroid is a suspension of crystals. The dazzling headlights at last week's demonstration were dimmed because the Polaroid in the lenses and in the windshield was aligned in conflicting directions. The light could thus pass through one but not through both...
...other states had done likewise, but Governor Landon promptly got to a radio microphone, called the nation's attention to Kansas. Alert for a man who might put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House. William Randolph Hearst sent a flying squad of investigators into Kansas to comb Alf Landon's private and public record. Reporting satisfactorily, they were followed by a flock of ace Hearst writers and the great Landon Boom...
...thousand sleuths could comb the town...
Before next fall legislators' records will be gone over with a fine tooth comb, their stand on the stump will be carefully questioned and clucidated. The autumn elections will have a real story to tell. Legislative berths are regarded as warm and comfortable ones by other people besides the present occupants, and applicants with sane ideas about education are going to win great support...
Hardest working of Europe's great international bankers is spry, dynamic little Governor Vincenzo Azzolini of the Bank of Italy, who is always popping up unheralded to comb this or that Italian bank's books personally, while its officers simper and squirm. Last week Signor Azzolini made several most exalted persons squirm. After going over the quantities of gold wedding rings, gold cups and gold medals presented by Italians to their State to speed the war (TIME, Dec. 30), the Bank of Italy announced that the "gold" medal given to His Excellency Benito Mussolini by His Holiness Pope...