Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day at Charlie Binaggio's First District Democratic Club on Truman Road in Kansas City, boon seekers ran a gauntlet of stony-faced hoodlums, sought their favors of the gimlet-eyed man sitting beneath the bare light bulb behind the bare desk. Charlie was a political big-shot in Jackson County, President Truman's home county. He had 30,000 votes in his pocket. He boasted that he controlled 40 state legislators, that he had elected Governor Forrest Smith. But Charlie Binaggio, who looked deceptively like a mild and prosperous chiropodist, made a mistake which...
...summer with her sister Stella in New Orleans. She is shocked at the meanness of Stella's home, and the vulgarity of Stella's Polish husband. She calls herself a gentlewoman, and passes as one. Slowly, however, her pretence is discovered. In the glare of a naked electric light bulb, Blanche DuBois is forced to admit that she does not tell the truth, "but what ought to be the truth...
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash gusto...
...inquisitive boy." At Schenectady, G.E. gave his inquisitive nature free rein: he was told not to bother with practical applications, but to look around the laboratory and work on any problem which interested him. On one project he worked for three years, introducing various gases into an incandescent lamp bulb just to see what would happen. In 1912 he made his first important discovery: an electric bulb filled with nitrogen was more efficient than the so-called "vacuum" bulb, since the gas retards evaporation of the tungsten filament. It displaced the old vacuum bulb, saved users of electricity a billion...
...flicked photometer, developed from a standard device long used by eye doctors, is built around a six-volt bulb set in a revolving cylinder. In one side of the cylinder a window is cut to show a flashing light like a miniature lighthouse. The patient looks at the light through opalescent glass. If his retina and brain are getting a normal supply of blood and oxygen, the normal subject should see the flicker effect when the cylinder revolves as fast as 45 times a second. But if the eye's arteries are narrowed, the oxygen-starved retina loses sensitivity...