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Toad found himself seduced, in love, scribbling away in the transports of a new passion. Toad was always a fanatic, of course, an absolutist. He bought the fanciest fountain pen. His word processor went first into a corner, then into a closet with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes erupting from its nucleus and that they acted as a brake. Bessel's work was largely ignored at the time, but it turned out to be at least partially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greeting Halley's Comet | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

Today Gillette is a monstrous international conglomerate with plants from Johannesburg to Munich. The company does over $2 billion dollars of business every year, selling products that range from luxury fountain pens to ladies deodorant. Fully one third of the corporation's business, however, remains in the bedrock blades and razors division: the action end of the shaving process accounts for one third of Gillette's total sales and two thirds of its profit. The company dominates the U.S. shaving market supplying 60 percent of the country's blades and 70 percent of its razors--that's 1.3 billion blade...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Where the World Learns to Shave | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

...center of the park will be marked by a large granite fountain. A pedestrian corridor will connect the three-lined area with Harvard Square via the K--School and the Charles Hotel...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: Kennedys Dedicate JFK Park | 11/5/1985 | See Source »

...name of a drink, it gives the idea that you are going there specifically to drink," said Meier. "And by requiring that an 'equally attractive' non-alcoholic beverage be served, they mean they don't want someone at a frat party saying 'Okay, there's the water fountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Quarters' Quartered; 'Thumper' Thumped | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

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