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blowing blizzard, whitens all New York, and covers the landscape.
Supper at University Club. Went to steamer at Hoboken to [[underlined]] see Phillipi off. [[/underlined]] Met Col. [[underlined]] Crawford [[/underlined]] there.
[[underlined]] Jan 16 [[/underlined]] (Sunday) Snowstorm over. Bright and sunny and very white and cold. Home all day.
[[underlined]] Jan 17 [[/underlined]] At office all day. Afternoon meeting [[underlined]] Faculty Pure Science, at Columbia
Jan 18. Schleussner [[/underlined]] sends a letter of protest because we gave out order for [[underlined]] industrial alcohol [[/underlined]] to [[underlined]] lowest bidder, [[/underlined]] yesterday, before we had let him [[underlined]] see the prices [[/underlined]] of his competitors. See my answer to him.
[[Left margin]] X [[/Left margin]] [[underlined]] Jan 19. [[/underlined]] Busy day. Afternoon at [[underlined]] Bloomfield. [[/underlined]] New Building for paper [[underlined]] very massive [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] expensive. [[/underlined]] Inspected different
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parts of laboratory. [[underlined]] Groff [[/underlined]] busy on quick molding, hot pulling molded mixtures containing large amounts of [[underlined]] furfural. 
Cheetham [[/underlined]] on [[underlined]] resinous emulsions [[/underlined]] some of them keep in suspension [[underlined]] 9 months. [[/underlined]] He also has a method whereby the use of [[underlined]] small amounts [[/underlined]] of casein, allows him to co-agulate the emulsion on fibres, woven or suspended. [[/underlined]]
[[Left margin vertical]] Meharg [[/Left margin vertical]]
Meharg busy with [[underlined]] Molybdenoded [[/underlined]] and other [[underlined] catalyzers for formaldehyde. [[/underlined]]
Evening our [[underlined]] research men [[/underlined]] had [[underlined]] arranged [[/underlined]] a [[underlined]] supper in the old little laboratory building of Condersite [[/underlined]] which they had scrubbed and white washed. Supper was cooked by one of the Ph. D's some other Ph. D's serving; a pleasant exhibition of cheerful helpfulness and [[underlined]] interest in their work. [[/underlined]] I left before their meeting was over

Transcription Notes:
I use past tense 'underlined' with a 'd' because that is my understanding from the instructions. It seems a waste of time to edit just to remove the 'd' in 'underlined'. If I review and the transcriber just uses 'underline' I do not add the 'd'