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Poet Carl Sandburg, onetime roustabout, hay pitcher, milkwagon driver, stove polisher, house painter, soldier (in the Spanish-American War in Porto Rico with the 6th Illinois Volunteers), newspaperman, is 52, married (he has three daughters), lives in Elmhurst, Ill. Long-haired, lanky-limbed, seamed of face, he likes to recite...
Synthetic resins (like Zalmite) are basically a chemical synthesis of phenol (carbolic acid), formaldehyde and some form of nitrogen. Wood flour is used as a filler. Zalmite is rendered light and porous by sending a blast of air through the soft uncast material.
Nor may President Chase permit himself to forget that Professor Arthur Cutts Willard, investigating the ventilation of long ducts, made possible the construction of such tubes as Manhattan's Holland Vehicular Tunnel or that Professor Roger Adams has been working on the synthesis of chaulmoogric acid, the most effective remedy...
Synthesis. Now that the pure substance is available for study, it becomes the chemist's (and manufacturer's) goal to make it artificially. That may not be for a long time, because the molecular structure of any hormone is extremely complicated.
The classification runs through seventeen major classes, but is left open at both ends--an admission of the probable extension of knowledge in both directions. The significance of the classification is said to lie in the skeleton which is afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of...