Word: coils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would sail April 27 to play in the French hard court championships, the Wimbledon tournament, the Wightman Cup matches (U. S. v. England). She won three championships abroad in 1930, did not defend them last year. Two days later, Helen Wills Moody made more news: she let her heavy coil of dark brown hair be bobbed...
Dancers in Diego Rivera costumes proceeded to enact the story of H. P. Russian Alexis Dolinoff appeared first, wearing an electric coil or two and a welder's visor. On his back the letters H. P. identified him like a football player. The libretto said he was "in the plenitude of his intellect, sentiments and physical powers...
...Standard Oil Development Co. He foresees industrial alcohol made from waste refinery gases. One of the largest current uses for these gases is in the manufacture of hydrogen. Cottonseed Gasoline. Cottonseed makes good hog and cow food and palatable cooking oil. If the oil is fed into a metal coil at 900° F. and 150 Ib. per sq. in. pressure, it breaks down into gasoline. Cottonseed
...Atlanta. Light from an electric spark is polarized by a Nicol prism, then sent through a cell containing carbon disulfide, a second cell containing a water solution of any substance to be tested; lastly through a second analyzing Nicol prism. Each of the two cells is surrounded by a coil of electric wire which becomes an electromagnet. The coils are so wound that the swings of the magnets are in opposite directions. To operate, the Allison device is so set that, with the magnets not working, the beam of light passing from the spark through the two cells and mirrors...
...that piece of laboratory ordinance when the Association for the Advancement of Science met in Pasadena last June. Although the scientists could see little of the machine's effect, they nonetheless gave a $1,000 prize to the ingenious young men.) Their machine consists essentially of a tesla coil under oil and a cascading cathode tube. The coil builds up an electrical potential to 3,000,000 volts. That enormous power is suddenly dumped into what is basically a series of X-ray tubes ending in a mica window...