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...merely drinking wine did not make a dent in the surplus, Dillon could run wine in its showers, and the Department of Buildings and Grounds could spray the shrubs with rich, red, life-giving fluid. Naturally, late working students would burn the midnight wine, and clever students would lever be devising new means to use up the surplus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bordeaux to Go | 5/28/1954 | See Source »

Firemen raised a ladder to the third floor window and completed the job of extinguishing the fire with fog-spray equipment. One wall and a section of floor were partially burned through, and a couch, a rug, and two pairs of skis were destroyed. Steven C. Swett '56 and William E. Lingelbach '56, residents of the room, estimated personal property damage at about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutor, 2 Students Save Third Floor In Winthrop Fire | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Starring as the reactivated reserve skipper, Gary Cooper is probably the best thing about the picture. In his usual--and favorite--role of Gary Cooper, he is quite at home on the bridge of his handy little ship. Wind whistles past his high cheekbones and salt spray lashes up to be-white his nautical brow as his first command is towed home by a Sancho Panza-type tug. His eighth failure to complete a test run has again resulted in burst boilers. The tug flashes a signal, and after the scant minutes his singal officer takes to decipher the more...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: U.S.S. Teakettle | 1/27/1954 | See Source »

...Surgical Spray. A plastic surgical dressing that can be sprayed on wounds was put on sale to physicians by Aeroplast Corp., Dayton. First developed in cooperation with the Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory for mass treatment of burns, such as in an atomic attack, the spray dressing has since been used on all types of wounds. The transparent plastic permits a check without changing the dressing, can be stripped off easily. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...very abundance of modern insecticides often defeats their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bugaboo | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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