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Acetylene gas in a sealed tube was reduced to a surprisingly large quantity of yellow powder, resembling varnish, which resisted all chemical reagents and a heat of 4000°. The powder was a substance utterly unknown to chemists. Precipitated by the ray upon an aluminum disc, the powder became an enamel which could not be removed...
This is the first time that the interior of the gymnasium has been renovated in over twenty years. In fact, so much white paint and varnish have been lavished on the building, that its interior is hardly recognizable...
Canton had quieted down for the night, but its 100,000 souls were, by no means, all asleep. Some worked on night shifts in the factories along foul Nimisillen Creek, making hardware, engines, safes, varnish, cutlery, paving bricks, structural steel. Some of them drained another, and then another and another glass in Canton's plentiful blind-pigs. People in bawdy-houses are seldom all asleep by 12:30, and last January 108 such houses flourished in Canton's three tougher sections, "The Badlands," "The Hole," and "Whiskey Centre." Gunmen and lords of the underworld are not asleep just...
Sneer the intelligensia, George Jean Nathanwise: "If Mr. Jordan were a baker, would he varnish his own pretzels?" Opine rival auto advertising writers: "He deserves most of the credit for tapping a new source of auto advertising appeal-the 'red blooded youth' racket...
Sleeked with sandpaper and rubbed down until not so much as a varnish blister marred its swift stream lines, a U. S. seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the timing instruments. Officials figured for a moment-announced that Lieut. Jame Doolittle had covered the course at an average speed of 232,573 miles per hour, which was 43,753 miles an hour faster than the previous (unofficial) world record for seaplanes set at Bayshore a year...