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...hands she placed Fingertips with these attachments: complexion brush, hair tonic brush, medicine dropper, eyebrow brush, eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework...
Reporters who waxed skeptical while trying to write with a Fingertip pencil were quietly shushed. Some practice was needed, it appeared, for proper handling...
Editor Snow admits his translations are very free, admits also that he has freely used his blue pencil, because even pai-hua is too discursive for occidental taste. Open-eyed readers of Living China will find these stories queerly human, may be surprised to find many of them bitter, strong, ironic stuff. Because they are written in pai-hua, China's national cussword appears frequently. A mild-seeming expression, "his mother's" (shortened form of "rape your mother") is apparently used to express any shade of any emotion...
...Radcliffe girl was composing a lengthy message to the home folks with much pencil-biting and puckering of brow. We didn't go so far as to peck over her shoulder but it was evident that it was an urgent request of some kind and she was afraid the demand was couched in too dictatorial terms. Some mollifying touch was necessary to close...
Mathematical physicists use the same three tools commonly employed by novelists and amateur race track bettors: pencil, paper and imagination. One who wields these tools brilliantly is Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac of Cambridge University, who won a Nobel Prize in 1933 for his powerful contributions to atomic theory and who is one of the half-dozen greatest mathematical logicians in the world. In the U. S. last week arrived the British journal Nature with an article by Dr. Dirac which he began as follows...