Word: 000th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1/20,000th of an Inch. Silicone rubber is one of the most permeable substances (60 times more so than Teflon film), and General Electric Researcher Walter L. Robb, 36, had long known that it could be made to act like a membrane. Two years ago, Robb hit on a way to stretch the rubber into sheets 1/20,000th of an inch thick, set about trying to devise a way to eliminate the tiny holes that somehow showed up in each square foot of film. His solution was simple: since the probability of two holes being in the same spot...
...national honor, Hattori was ready. Last week, after an investment of $850,000 in research, Hattori's men unveiled 1,300 ingenious Olympic time devices. They ranged from nine varieties of split-second stop watches to an electronic judge of swimming events that: 1) clocks swimmers to 1/1,000th of a second; 2) memorizes individual lap times of up to nine swimmers at a time; and 3) prints all scores on a sheet of paper the instant the race is over, thus eliminating time-consuming human calculation...
...Today it is the trademark, or "chop," as printmakers call it, of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, a modern, scientific, and rather messianic attempt to revive the making of graphic art from stone. As the Los Angeles-based, nonprofit workshop prepared to print its chop last week on the 1,000th litho created there since its beginning four years ago, it seemed to mark the rebirth of an art form lately thought inferior to painting because of its duplication by mechanical means...
...What is a tenth of a second? It is one-eighth of a heartbeat, 1/30th of a sigh, 1/21,000,000,000th of a lifetime. It is, literally, the blinking of an eye - an in significant instant to people who measure their lives in minutes or months or 40-hour weeks. But not to Robert Lee Hayes, 21, a husky sprinter from Florida A. & M. University. Hayes is the world's fastest human, a title he holds by virtue of the fragile fact that he can run 60 yds. or 100 yds. a tenth of a second faster than...
Tuesday, February 25 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 1,000th broadcast (radio and TV) of this U.S. institution...