Word: copper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy vault was pried the ancient coffin. A copper plate, incorruptible, identified the moldering sarcophagus. The skeleton was complete. Yellowed parchments supplied the final proof. They were forwarded, by the Right Reverend Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, who was present at the disinterment, to Vatican City...
...seeking, and shade-seeking plants. Stone walls with running water, foraquaceous plants are also to be mounted on top of the upper story. Another unusual feature will be a frieze running above the upper tier of windows, constructed of projecting copper-covered bosses, each showing one of the symbols of Biological Science...
...various topic headings he considers are the Associated Press, the United Press, the chain daily, standardization of the daily, the conditions in Philadelphia, what is wrong with the "World" (R. I. P.), the copper trust monopoly of newspapers in Montana, and the opportunity in the press of the small cities. His article on the now lamented "World" is particularly of timely interest and presents fairly clearly a number of the problems which the younger Pulitzers found themselves unable to solve...
...Nichols. Already aged, in 1920 Dr. William Henry Nichols, a skilled chemist with an eye for business, helped form Allied and was its chairman until his death last year. In 1921 his son, Charles Walter Nichols, was made president of Nichols Copper Co. (long rumored about to merge with Phelps-Dodge Corp.). Previous to that, the son had worked in many of his father's chemical plants, added to the knowledge of chemistry he acquired in Cornell (1898- 1902). In 1928 the son was made a director of Allied. Last week it was announced that, during Mr. Weber...
...invention is the work of one of the institute's youngest scientists, 29-year-old Dr. Bruno Lange. His first sun disc, developed several years ago, was copper covered with copper oxide. Lately he has used other metals and oxides, has found some which will develop from sunshine enough current to light an electric bulb, drive a small dynamo. Dr. Lange will not, of course, tell what metals he used...