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If [[red underline]] Roll is only half as [[/red underline]] fine a man [[red underline]] as Celine George and Nina paint him she will have to do quite some efforts to be worthy of him. [[red ! in left margin]] [[/red underline]]
Had Dr. [[red underline]] Baskerville, Dr. Harold Peter, Colonel Elliot and Mr. Skillan [[/red underline]] for dinner in [[red underline]] celebration of my 35th anniversary of doctorship [[/red underline]] A simple but hearty and informal dinner of [[red underline]] one course [[/red underline]] in which present problems of U.S [[red underline]] were discussed. [[/red underline]] till [[red underline]] midnight. A very enjoyable evening [[/red underline]]
July 24. A bright pleasant sunny day. Dictate text for a patent of [[red underline]] hexatrephenol acting upon novolak [[/red underline]]
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[[red underline]] Albert [[/red underline]] still on the [[red underline]] boat [[/red underline]] working on teak.
Afternoon drove to Chemists Club to meet Mr. [[red underline]] Meigsroke [[/red underine]] works with [[red underline]] Carleton Elles [[/red underline]] (see his letter) who says has a [[red underline]] new condensation product [[/red underline]] which with [[red underline]] formaldehyde gives a hard mass. [[/red underline]]
He showed me a bottle with a matter [[red underline]] teteraqueuous [[/red underline]] looking viscous [[red underline]] grayish [[/red underline]] brown partly opaque viscous liquid [[red underline]] smelling sulpher and acid [[/red underline]] [[red ! in left margin]] (probably made from [[red underline]] Sulpher chloride) [[/red underline]] and of which the sp. gravity feels rather high. probably 1.5 or over told me also that if he heats this with 20% of [[red underline]] formaldehyde [[/red underline]] solution he obtains a hard product, "as hard as Hard Rubber" he says. But he [[red underline]] had no sample with him [[/red underline]]