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...Subscriber Parsons $2. Extract from the clipping: "During the blow a man in Pensacola opened his bedroom window and in blew a Miami Herald, printed only two hours previously, giving an account of the storm."-ED. Dead Wrong...
...sake of experiment, London physiologists T. S. P. Strangeways and H. B. Fell cracked open several hatching eggs (64 to 72 hours incubation*) and scooped out the eyes of the unborn chicks. These eyes they placed in a glass dish which contained blood plasma and extract of embryonic fowl tissue, a viscid fluid. The tiny eyes dreamily bobbed about in this sticky medium, grew in "a surprisingly normal way," gave the horrible semblance of blinking at the experimenters who watched them last week...
...reasons for the inauguration of the Budget are explained in an extract from a report submitted to the Student Council by J. F. Barnes '27 last spring. "Hitherto," the report says, "the College has been asked each year to contribute several times to individual drives for money. The duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. One drive, advertised as absolutely the only drive, would be more likely to meet with a generous response on the part of the student body...
...such as the wild guayule shrub of Texas and Mexico was recommended to U. S. manufacturers now endangered by Britain's rubber monopoly. Guayule does not contain rubber as latex (milky sap) but as small particles among its fibres. The shrub must be cut down and pulverized to extract these particles, less than a pound to each bush. None the less, President George H. Carnahan of the Continental Rubber Co., showed that guayule plantations totaling only 1,000 sq. mi. would supply 25% of this country's annual crude rubber requirements. Californians are planting guayule...
...made with screens having 60 lines to the inch; pictures on paper with an ivory-like finish have been made with screens up to 400 lines to the inch. Color Process. Europeans had solved the problem theoretically when Ives first made practical "color filters" for a camera, to extract from a colored painting the patterns and values of the three primary colors composing it. As every one knows, each primary color-yellow, blue, red-has its complementary- violet, orange, green. When added to its complementary, each primary color becomes black. Thus, to obtain a negative print of the portions...