Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rayon was invented some forty years ago by a Frenchman, the Count de Chardonnet, who manufactured a lustrous fibre by treating cotton linters with nitric acid, and pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw...
The poor puffin! The poor gannet, poor razorbill, poor gull, guillemot, cor morant, tern and albatross! Ships that pass in the day or night vomit over the oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake...
"White Carnation", by Barry Bingham, who also contributes a nugatory "Hill Song", is the most ambitious story, and has considerable merit. The characters are not without an impression of life, and the ending is natural, although the device of destroying a keepsake, used by the author to conclude this episode...
Tides of Passion. When a young man is so constructed that women simply cannot resist his "Do you love me?" and when such a youth is a traveling man, there are bound to be complications. This young man, traveling the world over, left a trail of bleached and broken hearts...
In all this time he was active, spreading revolt through his Anti-Manchu organization, known far and wide in China as the "Dare-to-dies."