Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime another and less traditional way to pursue a Presidential nomination was being demonstrated by Colonel Frank Knox, energetic publisher of the Chicago Daily News. Aspirant Knox was speeding back & forth across the land, making speeches, giving interviews, openly creating for himself the publicity buildup, the indispensable "name & face stuff," which Governor Landon was getting by indirection. Fiscal 1936, Colonel Knox told Worcester (Mass.) Republican women last week, will end with a national public debt...
December 16. Up betimes, and put on my red stuff-suit, with a shoulder belt, according to the new style, and the bands of my vest and tunique laced with fine lace, of the color of my suit; and so, very handsome, by coach to nibble a bit at Will's. Here I did meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought...
...story goes, one evening Cooper was reading aloud to his wife a novel of English society. And here the Vagabond would stress this ever-growing tendency of some of our modern novels: They often do for us just what they did for our budding genius. He said: "What stuff I believe I could write a better story myself...
...vertically opposed cylinders (1¼ in. in diameter) compress the substance directly, he inserted between them a flat, hard steel block, ground microscopically smooth on its upper and lower sides. Between the block surfaces and the cylinder faces are placed specks (one-tenth gram or less) of the stuff to be tested. Straight pressure is applied, squeezing out some of the stuff from under the pistons, until the friction of its flow becomes so great that no more escapes. Then, as the pressure is stepped up, the steel block is rotated by a man exerting his full strength...
Patent rights to the "desensitizer" have been assigned to Columbia which will, Dr. Hartman promised, soon make the stuff available for general use, protect the public from exploitation.* Because patent negotiations had not yet been completed, Dr. Hartman was unwilling last week to disclose the composition and rationale of his beneficent substance. Eagerly awaiting details, grateful spokesmen for New York City's 3,000 organized dentists cried: "We hail Dr. Hartman's discovery as a miraculous advance...