Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average of over 100 cosmic particles of some sort pass through every human head every minute, according to Millikan, but they cannot be felt. Elaborate special apparatus is needed to observe them. Some scientists work with stacks of Geiger tubes, which register each particle that passes through them. Others use special photographic plates, where certain particles leave microscopic tracks of silver in the sensitive emulsion. The best instrument, and the hardest to use, is the Wilson cloud chamber, where the particles make visible tracks of white condensed moisture...
...been rather uncommunicative since the prewar days when he dashed off short stories between breakfast and lunch, broke into the San Francisco Examiner with a sad short-short, among the real-estate-for-sale ads: "Approximately 30-year-old well-built ranchhouse . . . 30 acres . . . No garage, no barn . . . heating apparatus out of order . . . 12-party line . . . no bus . . . plenty of squirrels. Owner paid only $32,000 . . . He is keeping six or seven acres for himself as a monument to his real-estate sharpness. Will sell balance for $35,000. If interested have head examined, or telephone...
...Japanese compliance. But MacArthur himself does not travel. In nearly three years of occupation he has not missed a day, including Sundays, at his desk. Douglas MacArthur, brilliant soldier and administrator, great showman, benevolent dictator, steadfast egoist, is SCAP-although the initials as usually employed refer to the whole apparatus of the occupation...
Douglas MacArthur and all the apparatus of SCAP could do very little about this larger challenge. It was becoming much clearer to Americans that the recovery and security of one depended upon the recovery of many. That would require just as much understanding and perseverance-and probably help-in Asia as in Western Europe...
...triple play, from X rays to light rays to electrons and back to light again; it amplifies the X rays only after they have passed through the body, so danger to the patient is not increased. A pilot model has worked in the laboratory; a full-scale apparatus is now being built. Most likely uses: studying the heart's action, detecting early cancer and tuberculosis...