Word: glue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graft in Business, published last week by Vanguard Press ($3), Author Flynn goes into the matter. Part of the book deals with petty graft by corporation officials, tells of no practices one does not know or suspect to exist. Typical example : a Victor Talking Machine Co. superintendent who changed glue brands when offered a 5% commission...
...herds limped from one enclosure to another, found some where they could enter and drink. Their refreshment was their death. Men were there to kill every one. to ship them to factories where the hides would be salvaged, the carcasses milled into plant-nutrifying meal, the hooves made into glue...
...world, ranging from state museums and traveling scholarships to compulsory art education and the coming of a second Leonardo. The International Office of Museums of the League of Nations, meeting in Rome last week, decided that one of the greatest would be the invention of anhydrous glue-glue without water...
...draw a sharp distinction," said Preserver Kennedy-North, "Restorers often ruin perfectly good pictures. For example an enormous number of paintings are being ruined by the application of new backings with glue when they are being rebuilt. This practice is absolutely ruinous because the glue attracts dampness.* Let me point out to the chemists of the world that there is an excellent field for them in the search for a non-hydrous glue." Mechanical-minded Professor Koegel of the Karlsruhe Technical High School came forward with a new method of registering the authenticity of paintings: two wafer-thin sections...
Agar is used chiefly as a culture medium in bacteriology because it keeps its form at higher temperatures than gelatin. Petroleum-agar, a familiar household intestinal lubricant, contains the substance in small quantities. It is useful in the making of glue, transparent silk, paper...