Word: resinous
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...Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter of the bristles can be regulated in production, definite standards of "hardness" can be maintained...
...also increased by important additions, among 450 specimens of Chinese food, drug, fibre and timber plants; a number of Egyptian plants; a number of Mexican rosaries composed of ornamental seeds; a series of plant materials from Oklshoma associated with the peyote ceremony of the Kiowa Indians; specimens of resin-yielding plants and resinous products from the Federated Malay States; and specimens from Burma...
...Resin Scaeterbun, an intelligent and educated U. S. citizen in spite of his name, is first shown enjoying life in the A. E. F. Home again, his first act is to seduce his buddy's sister. Without waiting for consequences, he makes tracks for his native town, where he is soon in trouble with the police for editing a smut magazine. Further adventures include bumming, bootlegging, another enlistment in the Army, a book of poems which lands him a job in Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down...
...exhibition was a rug showing Indian ponies woven from the carefully sorted undyed wool of white sheep, black sheep and their intermediates. There were also portraits of Chief Sits-In-The-Fall (No. 1) and Chief Sits-In-The-Spring (No. 2) painted in a new experimental wax resin technique...
...Holmes disclosed that there is in the Music Building, a fine Bull Fiddle, equipped with a bow, a book of instructions and a half-pound of resin, awaiting any musician who wishes to tackle the problem. He also said that the beat please of any student compoaer will be played at a concert in Paine Hall later in the year...