Word: pocketsful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Not on Fifth Avenue, not on Park, nor on Otto H. Kahn's 57th St. site, but on Broadway in the shabby brick building that has housed it these 44 years, the Metropolitan Opera Company began last week a new season. The scene was familiar: the line from the box...
Alkaline Cell. Lighter, but giving less than one and a half volts, is the alkaline cell which Thomas Alva Edison perfected. This contains a caustic potash solution; thin sheets of nickelplated steel contain shallow pockets. Pockets of the positive plate are filled with nickel peroxide mixed with a finely flaked...
These icebergs rise in the Baffin Bay region, far north in the Arctic. Wellknown Arctic explorers declare that it takes about 100 years or more for these huge masses to form in the glacier fields, and it is because these bergs are so solidly formed in rock-like strata that...
I was interested in the article on SPAIN in TIME, Sept. 26. It is certainly tragic that all King Alfonso's sons should be practically invalids. Of course the bad blood comes through Queen Victoria of Spain's father, Prince Henry of Battenberg, who was a Hesse-Darmstadt...
So take warning, men of Harvard. Joe Forecast is not predicting a defeat for the Crimson. He is merely offering a fashion hint: to wit, the well-dressed Harvard man will keep the flaps on his pockets buttoned.