Word: varnished
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...Famous for his hatred of varnish, Directo van Puyvelde has cleaned up many a Flemish masterpiece, disclosed last Christmas on nymph's leg and one baby's bottom in picture by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) which had been painted over in prudish generations. "Patina," he snorted, "used to be bought by the Belgian State for 100 francs a bottle. . . . It's called that 'Old Gold' tone. Pfui...
...soap; by spacing the two surfaces properly it is possible to get the "crest" of a light wave bouncing off the glass to coincide with the "trough" of the wave bouncing off the soap so that the two cancel out. It appeared that a film dried as a varnish four millionths of an inch thick was just right to kill all reflections. Yet the film-on-glass combination is a highly efficient transmitter of light, for some 99% of the light which reaches it passes on through...
Only a day after Katharine Blodgett announced her discovery last week, Drs. C. Hawley Cartwright and Arthur Francis Turner of Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported at a physics meeting in Washington that they had also produced invisible glass, using a similar principle. Their reflection-absorbing varnish, however, is deposited on the glass by condensing the vapor of metallic fluorides...
...President Patrick Henry Callahan of Louisville Varnish Co., a Democratic letter-writer almost as assiduous as National Chairman Jim Farley, wrote the latter saying: ". . . Get busy on some sort of a plan to get the Roosevelt philosophy to the traveling men and salesmen of the country." Most of Louisville Varnish's sales men, said Colonel Callahan, had become infected by the anti-Roosevelt feeling they encounter everywhere among their customers. "This " . . reactionary line of thinking is thrown into our salesmen five or six times every day and it is having its effect. . . . Salesmen, as you know, do a great...
...William Forest Patrick of Portland, Ore. had a heretical hunch that nature provides for the newborn. In 1931 he let nature take its course, left the original oily "varnish" on several babies, neither washed nor greased them for two weeks. He found them free from all skin infections. Last week, the Multnomah County (Ore.) Hospital announced that it had employed the "Patrick method" for three years, found only two cases of pyodermia among 1,916 unwashed, unanointed babies. Each day clothes were changed and buttocks washed with warm water, but beyond this the infants were not handled...