Word: knotless
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...from waste agricultural products such as cornstalks, corncobs, straw, hulls, burs. This stuff is ground up, made into "planks" and "boards" by compression plus a binder. Last week Chemical Engineer Orland Russell Sweeney of Iowa State College exhibited synthetic lumber harder than stone, stronger pound for pound than iron. Knotless, grainless, free of blemishes, some of his samples were heavier than teak, others lighter than balsa...
...each class, the chief trouble being that they have no definite objective in their College lives. One must stand back from one's ideal to get a proper perspective of it. Then, seeing clearly what it is that one wants, one has the first safeguard against being a knotless thread. It is difficult to select one object out of the many offered; but one worthy should be chosen and be given a man's entire force. A thing that is worth while should be done and it should be done hard...
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