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Where the Sabine River divides Louisiana from Texas, 68,000 Regulars of the U. S. Army maneuvered last week. Their war game, unrolled under a hot sun, on russet roads of sand and clay, in air sweet with the odor of pine trees, was the biggest the U. S. Army had ever...
...poor have sprint prospects been this season that Jaakko did not sand an entry to the Heptagonals in Philadelphia last Saturday. Smith pulled a muscle in his leg at the start of the outdoor season and was unable to complete in either that Holy Cross-Northeastern triangular or the dual meet with Darmouth...
...grows out of debate is the only secure fortification for neutrality. The shallow thinkers will be the first to turn coat when a real wave of emotionalism controlled by a pro-Ally press and a pro-Ally administration floods the country. The slogans and shibboleths will melt away like sand-bags. The Student Union made no mistake when it asked Professor Elliott to present the case for intervention. His arguments must be heard. The answer must be incorporated in any firm and lasting stand for American neutrality...
Last week Health News, official bulletin of the New York State Department of Health, noted that "sand soaps" used by factory workers were often more damaging to the skin than industrial irritants, offered the following cleansing formula: "Equal parts of sulfonated neat's foot oil and liquid petrolatum containing 25% gelatin ... are added to white granulated corn meal in the proportion of one-and-a-half parts, by weight, of corn meal and one part, by weight, of the oil mixture. To prevent growth of mold or bacteria a 0.5 solution of chlorobutanol is added...
...model provided General Alloys Co. with one of the biggest casting problems in its history. Because Noguchi's plaque, News, was 20 times larger than any sculptural casting made in stainless steel, foundry engineers had to tax their wits to meet the technical requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster model, ten tons of molten stainless steel (temperature 3,000° F.) were poured. When the steel had cooled, four hundred gallons of ammonia and nitric acid, 3,000 gallons of boiling water, were sloshed over its surface to shine it. Said William H. Eisenman, secretary...