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...house-cleaning experiment in Pittsburgh. Some six years ago a young research engineer, Gaylord W. Penney (now manager of the electrophysics laboratories), sought a conclusion to German experiments with ionized air, found a clue to cleaner air. With a wire, a couple of aluminum plates and a burning oily rag, he rigged his first crude electrostatic dirt trap. The modern unit is as simple in principle: air entering it travels over fine tungsten wires carrying 12,000 volts which impart a positive charge to passing particles of dust. Then parallel steel plates charged with negative electricity snatch and hold...
...Paper money, ranging from the one milreis "rag" to the 500-milreis sheet comes in 64 types, of all sizes, sorts and color schemes...
...development of imaginative resourcefulness in the individual soldier. On a Tennessee highway one soldier, lost-looking, ambling, alone, without his gun, caught the eye of Lieut. General Ben Lear, who stopped his car, ordered him in. On the man's shoulder was a white rag-mark of an umpire. The soldier explained: "I'm a neutral, sir." More and firmer questioning proved the soldier was AWOL, had wandered into the maneuver area on the way back to his outfit from North Carolina. To his outfit -and the MPs-the imaginative and resourceful soldier was promptly delivered...
...editors of the humor rag have made themselves famous by such pranks as the removal of the "sacred cod" from the House of Representatives in the State House at Boston, and the purloining of the Yale fence, which has served for countless years as a backdrop for the pictures of all Eli gridiron captains...
...column is looking for a swing columnist and a theatre expert for its "From the Pit" department. So, if you'd like to chew the rag with the Count, the Duke and the rest of the aristocracy and point out Benny Goodman's latest solid records to Harvard's jazz fans, or write penetrating studies of the theatre, come in and talk it over through the team of a can of beer...