Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Romanesque Baptistery, dating from 1153, containing an ornate 13th-Century pulpit by Niccola Pisano, an octagonal font built in 1246 by Bigarelli of Como...
...dullish, soggy boom. The highest heart sound is somewhere at the bottom of the range of a bass viol; the lowest is inaudible to human ears, even with a stethoscope. A delicate device to record these sounds on photographic film has been developed at Du Font's Haskell Laboratories by Dr. John Henry Foulger and Physicist Paul E. Smith Jr. The device consists of a microphone strapped to the chest, and a foot-long box with dials like a table radio...
...this brought an indignant denial from Lord McGowan, a deep British rum ble about "iniquitous charges." From Du Font's President Carpenter came a statement which was wide-eyed with surprise: "The Du Pont Company has for years had an agreement with Imperial Chemical Industries ... to acquire patent licenses. . . . The existence of the agreements has never been concealed. . . . Copies have been in the possession of government agencies for approximately ten years. They have been before several committees of Congress. . . . The action of the Department of Justice at this particular time in our war effort is difficult to understand...
...Font, Ready Knife. Frequently there is not enough type to go round. In September the supply of "I"s ran out during composition of ARMISTICE SIGNED BY ITALIANS. A native Papuan printer chiseled some out of wood. Another time there were not enough "R"s. Editor Leonard gave capital "P"s tails cut from...
...Only 735,000 tons of the program is the all-purpose Buna-S synthetic (the rest is specialty stuff like Du Font's oil-resistant Neoprene). Thus only 5,000,000 new civilian tires (plus 7,000,000 still stockpiled) are in sight this year, only 30,000,000 new tires next year to keep 25,000,000 U.S. automobiles rolling. That many, said Jeffers, is "a military necessity." Clearly the casual driver is still out in the cold and the essential driver must drive carefully and sparingly...