Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beauty of the Bible and the rusticity of its writers; the philosophic acceptance of a First Cause as inconscient as the telephone, and the strong inclination to say one's prayers; the faculty to cope with Kant and the childlike aptitude for faith; the sheepishness of the Shakespearean mask and the sublimity of the poet; the greatness of Queen Elizabeth and the pretentiousness of her virginity; the grace of Charles the Martyr and his unending folly; the greasy corpulence of Gautier and the perfection of his verse; the divine murmur of Verlaine and the cretin's mentality...
...group of Harvard chemists who rendered valuable service to the government during the war. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the Chemical Warfare Service, and as the chief of the Defense Section of its Research Division he directed the development of chemical absorbents to be used in gas masks, a task of immense importance and difficulty. Under his immediate direction were also developed a salve to be used on the body as a protection against mustard gas, and a gas mask which could be used in submarines to protect men against carbon monoxide gas. Since last June he has been...