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With Ash Can & Grater. Lithium's industrial champion is chunky, soft-spoken Harold J. Ness, who began experimenting with the restless metal during the depression, when his work as a metallurgist with a forging company slackened. His first laboratory was his coalbin, and the first lithium furnace was made from ash cans. The lithium was powdered with a common kitchen cheese grater...
...becoming "more and more weary of politics. I didn't mind so much being on the losing side ... I even took some pride in it. ... At the best it was like rubbing one's fingers firmly over a nutmeg grater." But by 1932, Campaign Manager Ickes was in a position "remindful of the frustrated female who has often been a bridesmaid but never a bride." (He was "plainly," he admits, "not the vote-getting kind.") He watched breathlessly when two Senators (his friends Cutting and Johnson) were in turn offered, and declined, the Department of the Interior...
Capone had been smuggled out of the Eastern Penitentiary in one of the two vans during the morning, carried to the new State Prison at Grater Ford (pop. 180), 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia. There he had been freed four hours earlier. A blue Buick sedan, it was reported, had streaked away into the underworld. "Al" Capone was again at large...
...Paris, L'Enfant et les Sortileges, new opera by Maurice Ravel, had its first performance at the Opera Comique. Critics were doubtful. There were strange harmonies, strange instruments?a rattle, a xylophone, a whip, a nutmeg-grater, a slide flute, a lutheal.? For the first time the Opera Comique orchestra played a fox-trot?for the dance of the Teapot and the Chinese Teacup...
What President Neilson said centered around this fundamental problem. At first he took up certain faults in our present system which are detrimental to the development of education. He closed with a discussion of the tutorial system as an indication of the tendency towards a grater differentiation among students and a more individualized plan of study...