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...have said, a good psychological defense against the exuberance that freshmen feel when they find that three C's and a D are not so hard to get after all-that same exuberance which leads to riots and bomb throwing in the Yard. It was an attempt to substitute foam flecked Brotherhood and Good Fellowship for town-gown fights...
Chemical Cushion. A new cushioning material made from a polyester resin (the basis of Dacron) was put on the market by Hudson Foam Plastics Co., Yonkers, N.Y. Mattresses of foam polyester will have to be only about 1½ in. thick, v. 4 in. for foam rubber...
...himself as relentlessly as he drove the assistants who performed the practical experiments to prove his brilliant theoretical flashes, Cohn identified more and more of the components of blood, and developed improved methods for extracting many of them. There was fibrinogen, raw material from which fibrin film and fibrin foam are made, to close wounds and cover the brain in daring, delicate surgery. There was thrombin, which combines with fibrinogen but is used separately in some cases. There was a special kind of globulin for hemophiliacs. There were globulins which made possible the immediate typing of any individual...
Sponge Cleaner. A cellulose sponge impregnated with an all-purpose foam cleaner for rugs and upholstery, as well as woodwork and windows, was put on sale by My-Ko Chemical Corp., Milwaukee. Price...
...four days and four nights, it had rained in Kyushu. A swirling, kingdom-come downpour streamed down the mountain spine to the narrow coastal plain, spilling out the tiny rivers into a torrent of yellow foam; it took the huts and the houses, the roads and the railroads, the bridges and the viaducts; it brought down landslides to crush the upland villages. Countless thousands were marooned on islands of high ground, perched in quivering treetops, watching and fearful as the mud-churning waters flowed past. Rubbing her prayer beads, an old lady said: "I have lived a long time...