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...from Physicist Kurt Greenwood of the British textile industry's Shirley Institute in Manchester; he has been studying ways of reducing the static electricity built up by walking across carpets and other floor coverings. Greenwood knew that static electricity may be generated wherever a shoe rubs against a rug. His research had further established that the charge can persist for hours (particularly on some synthetic rugs in dry air) and that the shape of the charged area conforms to the shape of the sole and heel that created it. Those facts were of particular interest to Greenwood...
Greenwood strode purposefully across some synthetic carpeting and then rolled thousands of tiny plastic beads across it. Most of the beads could be easily blown off the rug. But some stuck in place, attracted by the local static charges that Greenwood had created by his walk. In fact, they formed clusters that looked like footprints wherever his heels and soles had come in contact with the carpet. Greenwood found that he could use the beads to detect his shoeprints up to a day after he had walked across the rug...
Harvard Intercollegiate Rug by Club...
...learn that she had been smothered in her role as the wife of a Lutheran minister. He also came to understand "the division of sex roles in the middle-class home-the woman's martyrdom, the man's authority. This pattern of sweeping things under the rug, never quarreling, never talking things out, smothering unpleasantness...
...directors, whom Bing does not spare in his book. Of George Moore, for example, Met president and former board chairman of the Manhattan-based First National City Bank, Bing writes: "Moore could not believe there is a basic, unbridgeable difference between a theater and a bank or a rug factory." But, as Bing readily concedes, Moore time and again came up with money the Met badly needed...