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This word game Kelly plays is one of the most sparking points in the strip. He finds all the oddities of the English language and puns with them until he has formed a new language for his creature creations. From Deacon Mushrat, who speaks in Old English script to pup dog who pontificates on poltergeist, each varmint adds his own grammar...
Organic chemistry is about to have a pup, and the pup may grow, theoretically at least, as big as its mother. This week the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. announced that its plant at Hastings, Minn, is turning out a whole litter of "fluorochemicals"-compounds just like ordinary organic chemicals (e.g., acetic acid, ether, etc.), except that they have fluorine in their molecules instead of hydrogen. It should be possible, says Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, manager of Minnesota Mining's fluorochemical department, to make fluorochemical substitutes for all the 100,000-odd organic compounds, from TNT to DDT, that...
...years, uninterrupted, he had been a Government employee, and every one of his superiors testified that he was straight as a string. The FBI couldn't find anything wrong with him for that period. When he got out of college he was as radical as a short-tailed pup. If the case had come up then, we would have fired him in five minutes . . . If we had found one thing wrong in all those six years-one attendance at a meeting, one subscription to the Daily Worker-it would have been different. I said to one of the Senators...
...their curriculum had dealt with technical matters, e.g., "Types of Ministry and Duty" on shipboard, with the Air Force, the infantry, in hospitals, and in induction and separation centers. Next semester, with an estimated enrollment of 20, Renfer expects to include training in such skills as pitching a pup tent, finding a water supply, staying healthy while living in the open...
Resourceful Mr. Turnquist seems to produce a solution for every problem. The most common difficulty, of course, is housebreaking. He remembers a gentleman who bought a small pup at the same time he was refurnishing his house with new carpets. The first day he came home, he found a small wet spot in the middle of the new living room rug. Seizing the quivering dog, he threw it out the window. Luckily, the window was on the first floor and the dog was unhurt. When the man returned the second day, he discovered a new puddle. Outraged, he again tossed...