Word: beams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey coast the little vessel ran into a hammering storm. She was only 97 ft. long, with a beam of 22 ft. and a draught of 6 ft. 4 in. U. S. inspectors had approved her only for harbor hauls. When Captain Louis Hough, a white man, saw water in the engineroom, he decided to run for shelter behind Delaware Breakwater. Emanuel Valverde, his wife and Willie went below while the Captain vainly tried to get up a sea-bucking head of steam...
...last hurdle, the San Bernardino range, and another study in contrast as the plane "coasts" down the heavily wooded slope, orange groves reaching to the foothills, and again a close-lined population checkerboard. In the distance-it is now dusk -are the lights of Los Angeles and the welcoming beam of Alhambra Airport...
Thebaud stood into the tide. It was an ebb tide, running strong, but when she turned she had it full on her beam, washing her toward the mark. The seas were lifting her forward, too. The eleven minutes she gained on that leg gave her a ten minute lead that won the race and the series for her: 2-0. And at the Gloucester City Hall, Mayor John Parker gave to the men of Thebaud the new cup Sir Thomas Lipton had put up for the series...
...Danbury, Conn., Roland Hart awakened to find himself in a gaol cell. Making out what appeared to be a man hanging from a beam, Hart screamed, brought attendants who cut his drunken cellmate down. Then Roland Hart was told that an unknown had found him asleep in his auto on a grade crossing, had flagged a train just in time to save his life. Said Hart: "I'm glad I could give some one an even break...
...making some precision clocks for laboratory and observatory use. One of the clocks employs a pendulum enclosed in a vacuum chamber and kept at constant temperature. The pendulum has no escapement, driving spring or other mechanical attachment. Instead it is provided with a small slit through which a beam of light passes at each swing of the pendulum. The beam of light falls on a photoelectric cell and produces an electric current of short duration each second. These current pulses drive an auxiliary second's counter and clock dial for registering the time and also give magnetically impulses...