Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Tom Mix, 60, oldtime cinestar of 370 Western films; instantly, when his car turned over near Florence, Ariz. Pennsylvania-born (but publicized as Western-born, Indian-blooded), he rough-rode with Colonel Theodore Roosevelt through the Spanish-American War, did not go West until he was 26, joined famed Miller Brothers' 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. He soldiered in the Philippines, Boer War, China's Boxer Rebellion, returned to become a Texas ranger. Hired by the old Selig movie company to supply horses, extras, atmosphere while on "location," Mix soon passed to stardom and a pedestal...
...remove bacteria, pass it into chicken eggshells through a small hole made with a dentist's drill, inject it into the chick embryo's outer membrane. After allowing four or five days for the virus to propagate, they open the eggs, remove the membrane, grind it, mix it with broth, centrifuge it (a centrifuge is a high-speed whirling machine which acts like a cream separator). The vaccine is then ready...
...work on a new epic about the problems of New York cliff-dwellers who are suddenly transplanted to a farm house, vintage 1740. The trials and tribulations of the family include water-supply, insects in all shapes and sizes, equally troublesome relatives, and a summer theatre. "Mix all these things up," you can imagine Moss telling co-author George, "and we just can't miss. After all, look what we did with Woolcott last year...
Antiseptic Paint. After thousands of experiments, Dr. Foster Dee Snell, prolific Brooklyn industrial chemist, and Co-Worker Dr. Samuel Sidney Epstein announced production of a successful antiseptic paint-for children's rooms, breweries and bakeries, hospitals, food factories. They mix their paint with chlorine and iodine. After nine weeks on the wall it still kills typhoid and some other germs in the air, retains some antiseptic strength for six years. It is not so effective as sterilizing indoor air by ultraviolet radiation, but it is cheaper...
...twelve children in a family of impoverished Italian immigrant coffee workers, he got his first ideas about painting at the age of eleven, when a group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints, and even paint a star or two himself on the church's ceiling. Four years later with a second-class railroad ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants, he set out for Rio to study art. Kindly professors at Rio's School of Fine Arts...