Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Culbertson (or approach-forcing) system of play. Virtually all other bridge experts have joined with Mr. Lenz in approving the Official System, which was adopted largely to eliminate confusion during contract's experimental period. Mr. Culbertson, however, flatly refused to toss his system into the common pot. He has bitterly attacked the Official System and Mr. Lenz as one of its prime movers...
There they lived idyllically for awhile. With lush enthusiasm Emil worked away at his five-act dramas. Life went on: his family forgave him, he boiled the pot with journalism, his wife fell in love with another man, recovered from it. When the War came, Emil's nearsightedness saved his skin. Then he turned to biography. His Goethe made further potboiling unnecessary...
...Coffee Pot" is the name of an "atmosphere" which will be created at Kirkland House this week, which will be called forth every evening from a cloud of smoke, and which will be featured by ten and one-half minute talks from members of the House. "The Coffee Pot," according to announcement of the House Committee, will be so informal and illusory as to escape entirely the appellation of "organization" but will meet in the Committee Room at 7 o'clock or as soon as three men appear...
...Manhattan the Brothers Guggenheim bided their time in silence, waited for Chile's seething Cosach pot to clarify. Who was honestly against Cosach, and who wanted money? Were agents of the German synthetic nitrogen trust perhaps at work in Santiago to ruin Cosach? Would smiling President Montero decide to come out for Cosach or against? When the President called courage the greatest need was he only weaseling and watching...
Experiments continued at the du Pont Co.'s Jackson Laboratories and in Father Nieuwland's laboratory at Notre Dame. The chemists gave up working on divinylacetylene and concentrated on the more homely mono-vinylacetylene. They treated it with hydrogen chloride and first thing they knew they had a fine pot of chloroprene. Chloroprene differs from rubber's polymer, isoprene, only in that a chlorine atom replaces the methyl group, so after that the going was fairly easy. They had only to polymerize the chloroprene to the right point, and all of them were experienced polymerizers. When they finished they...