Word: celling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cell on cell the chambers tower, Floor on floor the windows glower, (Rhododendrons are in flower In the courtyard...
...Francis Ferdinand Lucas, Bell Telephone Co. researcher, told of a new microscope of his invention, so powerful that it will divide a cell 1/3,000 inch in diameter into a 30-story apartment-house-like structure. The lenses have a magnifying ratio of 5,000 : 1. Starting at the top of a cell it can take a picture, be moved down 1/100,000 inch at a time to take cross-section views...
...photographic work the cell is illuminated with cadmium light (beyond the upper reach of the visible spectrum) which gives a trueness of detail on the plate unobtainable with ordinary light containing a variety of wavelengths...
...such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...
...their club. If the House Plan doesn't take its place why should the House Plan take it away? That would leave these men no better off than before the House Plan, but incomparably worse off. There must be hundreds of men living in apartments, rooming houses, and cell-like old dormitories who find the Union their one gathering place. Are they to eat in cafeterias, go to pool rooms for their billiards, play their bridge with the fourth man sitting on the bed? It was with such men in mind that Major Higginson donated the building. It is doubtless...