Word: beams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject breathes into a tube connected with the machine. Alcohol in his breath reacts with a mixture of iodine and oxygen to yield free iodine. Photo-electric measurements of the intensity of a beam of light passed through the free iodine in a starch solution record the alcoholic content on a dial...
Smoke from a Crypt. Finally, with radio direction-finder cars, Greek army and police officers got on the trail. One beam led to an obscure chicken farm in the seacoast village of Glyfada, eight miles from Athens; another pointed to a carpenter's modest house in an Athens suburb. One night last November, the government raided both...
Your researchers are slightly off the beam on their Habsburgs. The Jan. 28 issue announces the death of Archduke Maximilian Eugene of Austria, referring to him as the younger brother of the Emperor Charles and son of Francis Ferdinand who was assassinated at Sarajevo. He was Charles's brother, right enough, but both were nephews of Francis Ferdinand and sons of the heir's younger brother, Otto Francis Joseph. Francis Ferdinand's marriage to Sophie Hohenberg was morganatic, and their children had no claim to the throne. Sic transit . . . but not that fast...
...Enterprise was almost on her beam ends. A helicopter took off from Culdrose Naval Air Station ten miles from Falmouth and beat southward into the storm. The wind was too strong. It had to turn back...
...scientists dissolved a little ferrous sulphate and carbon dioxide in pure water, enclosed it in a specially designed glass cell, and exposed it to a high-energy helium ion beam from a cyclotron. Analysis showed that a little of the carbon dioxide combined with water to produce formic acid and formaldehyde. Scientists have long known that solutions of formaldehyde sometimes turn into sugar...