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...laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when he bought his island estate, Enehoje, or when a lecture fell through, or when his money-making schemes (such as eel and fox farms) collapsed, he roared with frustration. Absentminded, Freuchen tucked his pencil in his beard when preoccupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Dane Tamed | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

JOHN OF THE MOUNTAINS-Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe-Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). From the unpublished, pencil-smudged journals of the famous U. S. naturalist, John Muir, a fragmentary, 440-page selection which rightfully belongs with his seven published journals. Readers may deplore the book's jumbled effect, but will agree that it succeeds with rare effect in communicating the freshness of mountains and deep woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Air-Resisting Trains | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Pleased by your story (April 18) of the world map used by Eagle Pencil Co. which omitted El Salvador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Each student uses a graphite pencil and a special examination sheet. All he has to do is to make a pencil mark about a quarter of an inch long in one of the five answer columns accompanying each question. In the grading machine, the examination sheet is pressed against 750 both of electric contacts corresponding to the 750 answer positions on the paper. The pencil mark on any of the answer positions on the sheet closes an electric circuit, and with the graphite acting as the conductor of current, the machine automatically records whether the answers are right or wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Machine Grades Exams | 4/26/1938 | See Source »

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