Word: smoke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the greater part of his four years is spent, getting an intimate acquaintance with the chemicals and procedures from which the whole of chemical knowledge has been derived. Professor Forbes once said that it is impossible to become a chemist by swapping small talk about the subject through smoke rings while sitting in an easy chair before a log fire. Much--perhaps the most important part--of the work in the field is that done in direct contact with the chemicals and apparatus, and that work is often slow and tedious...
...after day, month after month, clouds of oily, aromatic smoke billow up from the dumps on which Brazil's Government continues to burn coffee in a frantic effort to support its price. Last week the Government announced that since June 1931 over 14 million bags (containing 132 Ib. of coffee each) have been destroyed- the greatest wilful, peacetime destruction of property on record...
...Kane graduated from De Pauw and Johns Hopkins. Before going to North Dakota in 1918, he was president of Olivet College (Mich.) for two years. Before that he was for eleven years president of the University of Washington, where it is still said that his wife forbade him to smoke cigarets...
...bitter attack with the invective "To Hell With Yale" setting the tone of the message, the Harvard "Yardcops" scored neatly on the Yale Campus Guardians via a lengthy collect telegram, declaring the local college policemen's claim to the Big Three basketball title false. No sooner had the smoke cleared from this vitriolic assault than a barrage (collect) was wired from Princeton claiming a misunderstanding of league agreements and dissension in the Campus Cop and Princeton Proctor's ranks. This does not augur well for Big Three relations...
...well despise The Mystery of the Wax Museum because it breaks the rule that everything must be explained at the finish. Otherwise its garish ramifications should be pleasantly exciting. It shows how a sculptor of wax statues (Lionel Atwill), apparently driven insane when his effigies go up in smoke, decides to reproduce them by the highly unlikely process of stealing suitable bodies from the morgue and embalming them in tallow. When a live person suits the purposes of the waxworker, he has no hesitation about resorting to murder. The picture hints rather broadly that the corpse of Justice Joseph Force...