Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cream separators are centrifuges. To bacteriologists who use more delicate centrifuges to whirl germs out of solutions, the name Svedberg is as familiar as the name De Laval is to dairymen. Lately at Sweden's University of Upsala, shy, black-eyed, Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Theodor Svedberg, 50, perfected two new rotors in which at normal operating speed a dime would press against the wall with a force of half a ton. One rotor he kept. The other he sent to the du Pont research laboratories at Wilmington, Del. There last week Dr. Elmer Otto Kraemer put the machine through...
...really startling to notice how engrossed one becomes in the ways of the tenuous plot. For example, when Shirley is taking the examination that is to decide whether she may stay with her sea-bitten pals or must go to an institution, one comes remarkably close to the familiar midyear-finals feeling. And when the tension is broken, and Guy and Slim come crashing through the window where they had been watching, one chuckles with re- lief even though he recognizes this as an old, old trick...
...Trail of the Lonesome Pine" has the makings of a superior "Kentucky Beautiful" travelogue (though undoubtedly not photographed in the Blue Grass country); as a feature picture it is entertaining, little more. It is the familiar story of book larnin's invasion of the back woods. The grizzled mountaineers fight and live and love after the fashion of "Esquire's" variety, and are somehow trying to one's credulity. Sylvia Sidney, as the barefoot lass who succumbs to the winning ways of the furriner from the city (Fred MacMurray) and forsakes Mammy and Pappy for the bosoms of the edjicated...
...this Federal hanging in a State which adopted the electric chair in 1913, the U. S. Government had to supply all the equipment. Since no official was familiar with the finer points of the hangman's technique, Phil Hanna was called to do the job for nothing. Some 50 years ago Hanna was shocked by the spectacle of a bungled hanging. Thereupon he took up hanging as a hobby, experimented with plow lines and straw dummies. When he perfected a foolproof method, he volunteered his services to any State that needed...
...number of U. S. corporations which can borrow $75,000,000 at one crack is relatively small, and their names are usually familiar to the average U. S. citizen. No surprise was the fact that Pacific Gas & Electric stepped into the capital market last week for $90,000,000 of refunding money. But when a banking group headed by First Boston Corp. and Mellon Securities Co., Inc. floated a $75,000,000 bond issue for Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates last week, many an investor had to plough through an 85-page prospectus to find out what the company...