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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HOUSE OF SIMPLICITY- Ethel Davis Seal-Century ($3). Let the reader ignore just what he might expect to find in such a book, namely a gushing stream of female adjectives like "quaint," "gay," "charming," "piquant," "tiny," "dear," "darling," "lovely," "thrilling," "adorable," -and here is a very good book indeed for discovering a myriad handy ways and inexpensive means of accomplishing effects in interior decoration, to which the overworked adjectives listed above are perhaps irresistibly applicable. There is, of course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...narrow canyon of Cottonwood Creek, a roaring mountain torrent heading in numerous lakes under Mt. Langley. The trail wound steeply up between pine trees and rocks for nine miles, when we emerged from the canyon onto a sloping plateau at about 10,000 feet elevation, where the stream ran gently through pine forests and meadows and was followed six miles further to our camp at one of the lakes under Mt. Langley, which is five miles along the crest south of Whitney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. E. Wolf Describes Trip to Vicinity of Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...snow to be seen, because of the small precipitation in recent winters, but the extinct glciation more than compensated. On both sides of the Whitney group, glaciers formed in the cirques under the peaks and flowed down east and west, but in greater volume westward, facing the Pacific. Every stream has a chain of glacial lakes at the head, and between them, as the ice and its rock burden moved down, it carved and gouged and polished the granite in typical glacial forms; a couple of miles below. Whitney on Crabtree Creek a casual estimate of the thickness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. E. Wolf Describes Trip to Vicinity of Mt. Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Pulverized Coal acts exactly as a liquid, if heated moderately, said President Walter E. Trent of the Trent Process Co., Manhattan. The heat raises tiny bubbles on the coal dust and the lubricated particles then roll so that the stream can be piped an appreciable distance like water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coal Pokers | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Sinces the X-ray is composed of a stream of atoms, the spectrum may be used to find the composition of the individual atom by the Fraunhofer method...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicists at Jefferson Laboratory Conduct Experiments on Nature of Atom--Pile Driver Dents One Atom Slightly | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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