Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More credit to her for never relinquishing, save when artistically imperative, a gay, bubbling spirit that is far to seek these days. The book itself is ripe fruit-juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
...insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name of "Cow Pasture...
Rayon was invented some forty years ago by a Frenchman, the Count de Chardonnet, who manufactured a lustrous fibre by treating cotton linters with nitric acid, and pressing the resulting nitrocellulose through small dies into a coagulating solution. Subsequently, wood pulp was employed as well as cotton linters as raw material, and other important improvements effected in the process. At first, rayon was known as "artificial silk," but so swiftly has its output increased that its trade name of rayon is now thoroughly established...
...Artificial silk is made either of wood pulp or of linters (the tiny ends of cotton formerly wasted). The manufacturers of artificial silk have united on Rayon as a general trade name for the product...
...analine-hydrochloride, which has the same effect as age upon paper. The Boston sheet turned yellow, but the CRIMSON retained its original white lustre. "In 25 years", said Professor Conant, "an average newspaper will turn yellow, but the CRIMSON will not because the University daily is made of chemical pulp while the average newspaper is manufactured of cheap mechanical pulp...