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Last week there congregated in Washington many a heavy thinker for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Half a peanut an hour, the thinkers were told, would furnish sufficient calories to sustain their heaviest mental work; thus a small bag of peanuts each would have seen their brains through the three-day sessions of the Academy...
...tomb of a priest, the Rev. Father Patrick J. Power, dead of phthisis some 60 years ago, lately reputed to possess great healing powers (TIME. Nov. 25 et seq.). Private prayer and meditation in the cemetery were impossible: the place was a bedlam of the faithful, the curious, the peanut-and-postcard-selling. At length William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, ordered the hordes away, the gates locked while the Church pondered the phenomena and decided whether or not God's hand was really manifest...
...always shadow us?" "I am a peanut, a proud, peculiar peanut...
...Bakelite, this new synthetic resin will take a high gloss, will make strong, tough beds which can be stamped out by single clips of ponderous machines. Carefully guarded is the secret process by which this Zalmite is made. Zalmon Simmons when questioned, facetiously replies that it consists of "peanut shells and burlap bags...
Byproducts. "Excellent paper can be made from straw, cornstalks . . . artificial gas from straw . . . starch, flour from sweet potatoes. . . . Rayon from the fuzz on cotton seed. . . . Dynamite, linoleum, flour from peanut shells...