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good, less gives too hard, more too soft.
May 6. Meeting board of Directors Then spent afternoon at Brooklyn at laboratory of [[red underline]] royal Baking Powder Co. [[/red underline]] Charge 4 hours.
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Afterwards went with Dr. Peter to Luchow for supper then to see quaint. production of play "Pinafore" at Hippodrome [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] ship floating in water.
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During performance felt worried by the fact that sample of new material I carried around [[red underline]] smells distinctly pine-oil [[/red underline]] if rubbed while hot.
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May 7. 
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I gave this today my full attention, hoping to overcome this defect which will show our competitors immediately how to imitate us.
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May 8. Further work and council in laboratory to eliminate
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subject of smell.
Started preparing my Chandler Lecture.
May 9 Beautiful day but saw little of it, buried in documents for my lecture all day. In the morning spent most attention for means of [[red underline]] deodorizing [[/red underline]] or making terpinhydrate.
[[Ma?]] & Toch here in the morning with his friend [[red underline]] Rubens [[/red underline]] and their wives on their way on an automobile excursion
May 10 - 1914. (Sunday) All day [[red underline]] buried in preparing lecture. They [[/red underline]] told me it was fine weather outside.
May 11 Another day spent with that lecture. Subject gets so abundant that it makes me drowsy while trying to connect it and limit it within one hour's.
May 12. Asked Foersterling to pur-
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