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...garden perfumed by the powerful scent of the frangipani tree. His model was his youthful wife, Polok, once one of Bali's best-known native dancers. When the war cut off his supply of oils and canvas, Le Mayeur improvised a new medium. He painted with Javanese sarong dyes on a burlap-like cloth woven from tree fiber. The dye's bright pinks and greens on the rough fabric recalled old European tapestry...
...public list of gadgets for locating castaways at sea (Very pistols, dye markers, a hand-cranked automatic radio, etc.) the U.S. Navy added another that has vastly more range and accuracy than al] the rest. The latest, perfected too late for use in World War II but due for plenty of use, nevertheless, is a long-range underwater sound system called Sofar (Sound Fixing and Ranging...
...that folded too, Zevin joined World Publishing, then headed by his father-in-law, Alfred Cahen. World was mass-producing cheap Bibles, dictionaries and one-volume Shakespeares as retailers' premiums. Zevin felt that people would buy cheap books even when they did not come with coffee and hair dye. But he felt, with the late Al Smith, that there was a catch in it: "Who the hell ever goes into a bookstore...
...solution of the dye, malachite green, injected before a brain operation, will temporarily dye diseased brain tissue, but has no effect on healthy brain tissue. The British surgeon who uses it to help guide his knife has to reassure his patients beforehand: their skin and eyeballs will get over being green in a few days...
...struggling in shark-infested waters. Its inventors knew that sharks are repelled by a dead and decaying shark. An extract of rotten shark proved even more effective. Eventually, the active substance so offensive to sharks turned out to be a chemical which people don't mind. A black dye was added to the brew, just to give the sharks a good visual scare...