Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group pressure doesn't suffice to get a beard off a chin or a world-saver off a soap box, the University is usually on hand with tutors, advisers, section men, and analysts. But even with the help of friends and elders, some of us will, like the grey haired men, smoke our cigarettes until they scorch our fingertips...
...Soap-Bubble Film. The density of an atmosphere detected in this way depends partly on what gases it contains, and the radio waves give no such information. Elsmore points out that the moon's gravitation is too feeble to hold comparatively light gases like the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. Any gas molecules that hang around the moon for long must be much heavier. But the moon may have in addition a temporary atmosphere made of helium and argon given off by radioactivity in the moon's rocks and of other light gases escaping...
...other unpleasant features of space. If the earth's atmosphere were compressed to the density of steel, it would form an armor plating 49 in. thick, but the moon's meager atmosphere, compressed in the same way, would be only one-millionth as thick as the thinnest soap-bubble film...
Director Prince's needling inventiveness has also helped make money for Armour, pushed its pharmaceutical and chemical divisions (Dial Soap, Chiffon Liquid detergent, anhydrous ammonia, soluble dried blood for plywood glue, etc.). But Prince wants 89-year-old Armour to diversify even more, recently said: "At Armour we're on the edge of a new era. I'm not selling Armour stock. I'm buying." Billy Prince hopes to usher in the new era himself...
...bath is a bath, and not a luxury. Everything in the bathroom must work perfectly. When I wash my hands, my two forearms converge towards the middle of the basin, and what I want is not the vision of a rectangle, but a place to put down my soap and nailbrush-not up by my elbows but where my hands are going to be. So I design basins to converge towards the taps, the widest portion of the sides being close to the taps...