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...ordinary 110-volt current to perhaps 1,000,000 volts in a transformer, then jumping it through a straight vacuum tube at a target from which X-rays are emitted. Now, in effect, the betatron combines transformer and vacuum tube. Instead of circling round & round a magnet in a coil of wire, as in a transformer, the electrons whirl through the empty space inside the doughnut-shaped vacuum while their voltage increases...
...report from an unidentified passerby to the effect that an unidentified person was seen late last night throwing a coil of rope out of a fourth story window of Adams House was discounted as pure myth...
Malignant tubas, though, for fun, May coil about and strangle one. So with this constantly in mind, It trains you tuba very kind...
...sight unless little Generalissimo Weygand could stage a successful counterattack from the south across the Somme east of Amiens. If Weygand could cut through the corridor, the Germans who had pushed to the sea would themselves be isolated. But every day, every hour made stronger the coil of power through which this counterattack must pierce, from Amiens to Cambrai and Valenciennes. Before mounting and launching his attack, Generalissimo Weygand had to reconstruct his battle line on a 175-mile front from Montmédy to the Channel, for the troops whose job it had been to defend that front were...
Died. Valentin ("Wonder Doctor") Zeileis, 65, world-publicized German healer, who treated thousands of ailing men and women by stroking them with an ''electric pencil" (a simple, high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery); of a laboratory injury; in Gallspach, Germany...