Word: 47th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coincident with his 47th birthday last week, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark University rocket inventor (TIME, July 29), disclosed his invention of a sun engine. His laboratory model consists of a parabolic mirror one foot in diameter, which focuses sunlight upon a hollow glass sphere five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The sphere contains water and finely divided carbon. The focused light passes through the clear water without heating it. But when the light strikes the opaque carbon, the carbon heats almost instantly and in turn heats the water, which turns to steam. The steam escapes through a hole...
...Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this sentiment. Likewise, the evolution law almost passed a few years ago. However, the motto is a criterion of an ignorance-ridden state. It is the 47th state in illiteracy-only one state being lower in the scales. ...* WARREN WHEELER...
...watch are opening a contest open to students of the University to write a suitable ten word or less advertising headline featuring the watch. One of the watches will be awarded as a prize. Headlines should be mailed to the office of the company at 10 W. 47th St., New York City...
...size with Zukor's Paramount building may be the projected William Fox's Vox Theatres Corp. building, to be erected at an anticipated cost of $10,000,000 on Broadway at 47th Street...
...young as I was," sighed the Mayor of New York City last fortnight. It was four o'clock in the afternoon and he had just reached his office for a day's work. "However, I am glad to be of service." Mayor Walker had been celebrating his 47th birthday, beginning with a banquet the previous midnight, tendered by the Friars Club of New York, music by Paul Whiteman...