Word: metallically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Dr. Robert W. Carter, research head of Taylor-Sloane Corp., which has been trying for ten years to perfect metal alloy photographic film, announced that it had succeeded, that the new film would be on sale within 90 days. According to Dr. Carter, Taylor-Sloane film is cheap, grainless, sensitive, non-inflammable, indestructible, non-shrinkable, capable of being used on both sides...
Images on ordinary transparent cellulose film are projected on a screen by a light behind the film. Images on non-transparent metal alloy film are projected by reflection from a light in front of the film. Major potentialities of metal alloy film outside the entertainment industry: mapmaking, microfilm reproductions of checks and documents, historical records for which cellulose film, which lasts only about 25 years, is unsatisfactory...
Drawing and painting were added to the time-honored forms of occupational therapy (basket-weaving, metal work, etc.) at Bellevue in the spring of 1935. The Federal Art Project furnished artist-instructors to hold four or five classes a week for all children and adults, except surgical patients, in the psychiatric division. For Bellevue psychiatrists this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed...
...experts, what to do with it: "It is possible, of course, to sterilize the presence of gold, to keep it from forcing prices upward. . . . But nobody ever has found a way to sterilize the absence of gold. When a country [i. e., in Europe] has too little of the metal, its prices fall, bringing depression...
...introduced a new process which it hopes will give the company dominance of the seamless pipe market. Hitherto manganese, the element which gives, steel its pliability, has been apt to cluster instead of spreading evenly through the steel; now J. & L. is feeding manganese into the molten metal in carefully measured and shaped lots. The new process, says Metallurgist Graham, is like using bits of quick-dissolving granulated sugar in coffee rather than lump sugar. The analogy would be more accurate, he adds, if lump sugar caused rheumatism and granulated...