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...aluminum silicate of which clay is largely composed is aluminum oxide. Boiling hydrochloric acid, Hixson found, combines with the oxide to form aluminum chloride dissolved in water (though it does not affect the silica). Impurities such as iron chloride (formed at the same time) are then removed with an ether. The remaining aluminum' chloride solution is then heated, aluminum is precipitated as hydrated oxide, and baking changes it to alumina ready to be electrolyzed by the Hall-Héroult process to produce the metal. The hydrochloric acid is recovered to be used again...
when "he was interrupted by a piercing shriek from Shelley." The author of Rise like lions after slumber grasped "his ruffled head between desperate hands" and staggered from the room. "Pacified with a douche of cold water and a whiff of ether," he explained that he had been staring at Mary, suddenly remembered a story about a woman who "had eyes instead of nipples, which taking hold of his mind horrified...
Mainstay of the Group's effort to publicize intervention is encouraging members to air their opinions in the press and periodicals and over the ether. Last year over 40 articles by an imposing assortment of authors, including President Conant, Andre Merize, and Bertrand Russell, were published under the sponsorship of American Defense...
...financial restrictions, the Network officers see little chance at present of extending the broadcast system, which uses special insulated wires rather than the radio ether, to the Freshman Halls. However, reception in the Houses, occasionally weak last year, has been perfected during the summer to standards set by Boston stations...
Last Friday night the CBS listening station picked up a Paul Revere plug on the America Asks-Germany Answers broadcast, and a totally unsolicited testimonial went out on the ether. Axis-greased the announcer: "TIME and LIFE just rang me up a few seconds ago ... to get the story of Paul and a personal description. So don't fail to get the next issue of TIME and LIFE . . . The subscription rate is five dollars...