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...purple or a bright target yellow. Britain muddled through with U.S. and South American help. But to make sure it would never happen again, I.C.I, was formed in 1926 by merging the four biggest companies−the British Dyestuffs Corp. for dyes, Brunner, Mond & Co. for nitrates and ammonia soda products, United Alkali Co. for alkalis, and Nobel Industries Ltd. for explosives...
...clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to Bui-finch, to H. H. Richardson, to Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson; there is a bank that has been called the "most literate bank in the world" (among the 100 "books published by our customers in the past two years...
...television screen, showing a disheveled would-be functionalist trying to cope with a multiplicity of electric contrivances that report their broccoli and onions way beyond their allotted zone." The dining room "where families and friends got to know each other is now ... a counter behind which parents and soda jerks are indistinguishable...
Private Life: Outdoors, a passion for hunting, fishing, hiking; indoors, for woodworking (which he now rarely has time for), and tying fancy flies for next spring's fishing. Smokes six to eight cigars a day, drinks an occasional Scotch & soda, likes western movies to get his mind off work, and quietly frets at the social chores that go with...
Roberts believes that the cylinder had been broken by a student who had tampered with it. Since all the old soda and acid type extinguishers had been replaced recently with new carbon dioxide ones, the students were unfamiliar with them, and were probably too excited to read the instructions printed on them, he added...