Word: containers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs for the remainder of this week contain the usual diversions. As is customary, Sunday evening is devoted to more serious numbers and this week, there is to be a Schubert-Tchaikovsky-Wagner program with Elizabeth Travis as soloist in Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto. Surely, this is an occasion which romantically-minded souls should not miss. Monday evenings is gypsy night -- for the benefit, oddly enough, of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. The members of this worthy institution must have a craving for this type of music for every number on the program has a authentic gypsy flavor. Possibly...
...line with that specialty Dr. Gushing accumulated memorabilia about the greatest doctors of our time. The items pertaining to his own activities during the War fill nine volumes. They contain day-by-day orders of the French, British and U. S. Armies with which Dr. Gushing successively served from the early spring of 1915 until after the Armistice. They include diaries of his experiences with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance at Neuilly, France; with the Base Hospital Unit which he organized in Boston and carried to France; and as "senior consult ant in neurosurgery" for the American Expeditionary...
Rubber, silk, cellulose and certain other organic compounds contain "giant molecules" weighing hundreds of thousands and even millions of times as much as the hydrogen atom. The rayon industry (which last year produced more than 256,000,000 lb. of fabrics, employed 60,000 workers and paid them $60,000,000) is currently profiting by a clearer understanding of these mammoth particles. It has been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same...
...rebuff of a clerk . . . prevent you from going further than the admitting desk. You may always, if there is time, write to the superintendent of the hospital for information. . . . You may also write to the hospital and ask for the annual report or the year book. These publications contain a list of the staff physicians...
...seven stone tablets, each two feet square, some 2,420 years ago. Lately diggers of University of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute unearthed them at Persepolis, not in the palace but in the ruins of an army garrison where they had been stored. Three of the inscriptions contain matter new to scholars...