Word: wax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Melted Wax...
Litigant Everest turned to his abandoned harness-oil still. He thought of trying petroleum for mechanical lubrication. Only wax and vegetable oils were then in use. Modern lubrication science was born at the barn. The Rochester oil business soon became too vast for Hiram Everest. Responsibility of management told on him. The Standard Oil Company bought him out at a small price, throwing in a job with a small salary, a nominal job as President of the Vacuum† Oil Co. with nothing much to do. President Everest continued to raise apples on his farm outside Rochester...
...Despite his missing digit, Mr. Barrymore is capable of opening all kinds of sliding doors and secret panels; but he is incapable of stealing the picture from a police dog called Rex in the picture (real name Napoleon). Although at an important crisis he mistakes Mr. Barrymore for a wax dummy, this animal adds enormously to what would otherwise remain a not very startling reiteration of the Jekyll-Hyde theme complicated by stupid detectives...
...opportunities for self education here are numerous and none is closed to the graduate student. Older, more settled than his younger brothers his ideals may find their realities in things of a far different nature. Where they are, they are his to choose. Between and sealing wax the difference is largely one of option, and whichever words the satisfaction is acceptable, without comment or peril, to the individual temperament, and in this case individual temperament is the ultimate criterion...
...poverty. After the War, he was on the way to financial independence with a patent waterproof sock. Illness wrecked his plans. His television experiments, begun in 1912, were long pursued in garrets with the homeliest of apparatus?bicycle sprockets, bull's-eye lenses, biscuit tins, cardboard, string, sealing wax...