In the fabric section, a textile twisting and tearing machine and a Lissajou curve [sic] abrader (covering a complete area in overlapping curves) are supplemented by apparatus for evaluating waterproofness, fibre diameter and light-fastness.

The most important lesson of the full year course in ancient history was the inculcation of the sweep of time: that a nation's life was not lived in isolation from its neighbors, that the acts of men have great and grave influences on their own times and for the future, and that the thread of life beginning in ancient times extends to the present.

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This is different from the rewritability of DVD-RW and is closer in function to a removable hard drive than to an optical disc.