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Martins Yellow itself is just the first of the seven products in the experiment, from which most of the others are directly or indirectly derived. It is used as both a dye and moth-proofing agent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Nears Fieser Time | 5/19/1954 | See Source »

Transfer Point. In Los Angeles, Virgil Clopine, suing for divorce, complained that his wife Marie had moved her moth er, her brother, and her daughter by a previous marriage into his six-room house, then started going out nights with other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 10, 1954 | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

...Apes in Animal Sociology"), and again on May 27, 1938 ("The Living Asiatic Apes"). In addition, other esoteric cover articles of the Merrill period featured "The Harvard Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa," "'Malaysia.' Its Governments and Physical Beauty," "Collecting Fossil Insects," and "A Way to Control the Gypsy Moth...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Alumni Bulletin: From Football to Frogs | 4/30/1954 | See Source »

...Australia the Duke of Edinburgh became the butt of some friendly hazing when he dropped in for a look at Melbourne University. As he stepped from his car, an honor guard of students, bearing mops and dressed as Eastern potentates, rolled out a moth-eaten carpet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...level, reached by a winding stairway in the tower, is divided into the Nest, workroom for artists; the tower room, furnished chiefly with a moth-eaten Ibis; and the Great Hall. This last is the most impressive, reserved for Lampy's state occasions. At first glance, it seems extremely large because of a foreshortened perspective and triangular shape. The Hall's main features include a large, carved mantelpiece of Elizabethan vintage, serpentine electric light brackets, and suits of Japanese armor. A solid oak table stands in the center, and is deeply carved with the initials of early members...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Flemish Birdhouse | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

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