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...invented forty years ago by a French nobleman, Count de Chardonnet. Practically any cellulose substance can be transformed into it,-cotton linters (tiny shreds of cotton fibre formerly wasted), wood pulp, corn stalks, straw...
Approving Fascist editors exulted, last week, that each unsent greeting will conserve to the nation "not less than half an ounce of high grade paper pulp," and will release the price of stamp or telegraph fees for "more constructive expenditures...
Assembled Animalcula. Dr. Charles Manning Child of the University of Chicago spent last summer at the Scripps Biological Institute? at Miramar, Calif. There he collected some tiny animals of the sponge family (corymorpha, helmet-shaped bodies) ; ground them in a mortar until they were shapeless pulp; bolted the mess through fine silk. In the strained liquid were living corymorpha cells, single or in groups of small number. After the liquid stood a while, the cells collected into small spheres. Many of the spheres?assembled from originally different animals?developed into complete & healthy corymorphae...
...highest score in prominent games was made by the violet squad of New York University, who hammered Alfred into a 65-0 pulp...
...wilderness, singles out the biggest boar in sight and hounds him into a gratifyingly slimy slough. The tale has an obscure hero, another Lewisian lie-hunter who, to purge the last bitter dregs of pity and fear, gets his gentle eyes and mouth whipped to a black pulp by the K. K. K. before he is released. But the boar is the chief sacrifice and its name has the inimitable Lewis smack, Elmer Gantry...