Word: compacted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black cellophane to keep out light. The two upper shelves in the black football each contain two Geiger counters, or ionization tubes which detect the arrival of cosmic ray particles. On the shelves below the counters are eight radio tubes. Connected to the counters and tubes is a light, compact short-wave radio transmitter with an aerial. When the apparatus is attached to a balloon and sent aloft, passage of the cosmic rays through the Geiger counters will be transmitted to the men on the ground through their short-wave receiving set, will be recorded on a slender tape. Disappearance...
Before the Appropriations subcommittee chairmanned by Colorado's compact little Senator Adams, Alabama's gift to the drama tossed aside her blue felt hat, perched herself on the table and read a prepared statement. "Go slower, Tallulah," whispered her father, who sat in as coach (and whom she also hugged for cameras). But she raced on with her arguments-that the theatre should be helped because it yields a 10% Federal tax on its admissions; because its people know no other work and their talents are social assets; because they bring cheer to millions, and give benefit shows...
...lake (see cut), will be modernist in style. Besides classrooms, a library, laboratories, shops, offices, the buildings will include two-room apartments for teachers, rooms for 120 students. Each student will have a private study but share a bedroom. Most unusual aspect of the plans is the buildings' compactness, for compact community life...
Strongest single stimulant to this lately moribund business is large-scale production of compact, streamlined pianos adapted in size and style to modern apartments and retailing at about $225 up, some $100 less than the old units. No. i innovation are Wurlitzer consoles finished in "Kordevon," a cloth covered with ten coats of the plastic, pyroxylin...
...record of six months' travel in Czecho-Slovakia before Munich, North of the Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected...