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There he sat at table with a broken-down laboratory assistant, a lavender college student, a mousy-genteel kleptomaniac widow, a moth-eaten elocutionist, a stale bibliophile who dismissed all ideas with "forgive my sense of humor"—a gallery which should convince almost everybody that Wells, like Dickens, is no caricaturist of English life but a dispenser of literal and horrifying truth. And there Teddy ran foul of two "overripe virgins," bleached Miss Blame and malapropist Miss Birkenhead, who once spent six months in Paris, calls her Paris sugar daddy her faux...
...synthetic insecticides, one of the most promising is phenothiazine, which is made from a coal-tar derivative and sulfur. This chemical is deadly to the codling moth which costs U.S. applegrowers nearly $18,000,000 a year. Early failures in field tests with phenothiazine were found to be due to the size of the particles. They were too big. Later tests with more finely ground phenothiazine turned out much better...
...genius for getting action at weak spots, Sam Robinson brought the mam moth construction program-biggest ever undertaken-to the point where every major shipyard, except those deliberately set aside for naval repair work, was building some kind of Navy craft...
...children out of wedlock, Rembrandt moved to dingy quarters over a ghetto junk shop, and continued to paint more intensely than ever. When his son, whom he idolized, died in 1668, aged but upright Painter Rembrandt stumped in proud sorrow to the graveyard, dressed in his best: a moth-eaten, fur-lined overcoat spattered with paint...
...textile making, where they help dyes to penetrate fabrics quickly and evenly. Wetting agents also aid the moth-and flame-proofing of materials...