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Synthetic rubber, long a goal of the "creative chemists," was successfully produced by Duisberg, the German chemist, and Perkin, the Englishman, some years ago. But the processes were not commercially practicable. Now Plotnikoff, also from Germany, has found a feasible formula. A uranium salt, used in conjunction with sunlight, produces an effect similar to, but much cheaper than, ultraviolet rays. The action of these rays on vinyl chloride made from acetylene, results in caoutchoue chloride, which can easily be converted into rubber. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, foreseeing the immense importance of knowing how to utilize...
...declared that he found in all of them the same underlying principles of social justice, especially in connection with protecting women and children in industry, providing mothers' pensions, resisting mob rule against the Negro. " The divisions wrought by theology and excused by theology are being healed in the sunlight of social vision. Here is where Anglican agrees with Catholic, Catholic with Quaker, Quaker with Baptist, and Baptist with...
...George has thrust a pin into the bubble which for two long days after Mr. Bonar Law's resignation supported Lord Curzon under the rays of the spotlight as the probable successor to the English premiership. The bubble was large, but it was nothing more and in the clear sunlight of modern conditions it could not last...
...Boston any decent citizens?" The answer of the New Republic, where this question has recently been raised, is apparently in the negative. Boston's election shook, its various political scandals, its banking irregularities, are raked out into the sunlight and made to appear typical of Boston's public affairs during the past few years. The police strike, too, is dragged out of the retirement it was beginning to earn, and colored with recent cases of constabulary misdeeds, it is set up as the vane that should have shown which way the wind was blowing several seasons ago. The conclusion reached...
...Cafes Concerts". Of the portraits, especially fine in its delicacy of execution and its keen character portrayal is the portrait of the engraver, Tourney. Pissarro is represented by a number of landscapes and landscapes with figures in which he has made use of aquatint to give the effect of sunlight and shadow...