Word: angular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among newly patented inventions [TIME, May 12] you mentioned a plastic, strapless [brassière] as having "distortion point 310°." As an engineering student who is eternally reminded to pay particular heed to units of measurement, your statement leaves me guessing. Was it in angular or temperature units...
...students of engineering and physics . . . comprehend and appreciate the statics of the system, but we are at a loss to account for the phrase "distortion point 310°." Does the 310° refer to angular measure and if so, is the plane of distortion horizontal or vertical? Or does it refer to temperature, and if so, is the scale Fahrenheit, Centigrade, or Kelvin? If the scale is Kelvin, we look with breathless anticipation to certain conditions to which the system must eventually be subjected...
...where P is the strength of the magnetic field; ß is a constant near unity; G is the gravitational constant (6.670 X 10^-8); c is the speed of light; U is the angular momentum (spin) of a revolving body...
...Weiss Nicht." An angular, middle-aged woman, who had been weaving through the crowd from sidewalk to curb in a futile effort to keep her ill-shod feet dry, suddenly sighted the twelve men. She stopped in her tracks, stared wide-eyed at them for a full minute. Then she dropped her threadbare market bag, flew across the street in front of a lumbering, charcoal-burning truck and threw herself with a gasping cry upon the third prisoner. Prisoners and passers-by paused and gaped dumbly at the two Rodinesque figures fingering the backs of each other's rough...
Last week, the Hall's electorate - 161 U.S. baseball writers - added four more names to the 49 on the plaques. All the new choices were living men (and all in their 40s). The four: ¶ Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove, 46, taciturn and angular, one of baseball's greatest southpaws. His equipment: control and a fireball exceeded only by the late Walter Johnson's. He won exactly 300 games (31 in his best year with the Athletics), quit baseball five years ago. Present occupation: running a combination poolroom and bowling alley at Lonaconing...