Word: corde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hammond organ can be plugged into the wall with an ordinary electric cord, costs less than 1?an hour to operate. Tone quality in a pipe organ is limited to the number of pipes. The Hammond organ can produce countless variations simply by setting a few switches and thus combining or eliminating the various electrical impulses which make the harmonics...
...Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and causes the disease. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been...
Fastest U. S. transport plane is the Cord Vultee, an eight-passenger single-motored (Wright Cyclone) all-metal low-wing monoplane introduced few months ago on American Airlines. Month ago Jimmy Doolittle flew a Vultee to a new coast-to-coast transport record of 11 hr. 59 min. (TIME, Jan. 28). Last week an obscure American Airlines pilot named Leland S. Andrews climbed into the Doolittle Vultee at Los Angeles, streaked non-stop to Washington to deliver a box of orchids to Mrs. Roosevelt. After a 12-minute stopover he took off again, hopped to Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett...
...concrete. Mrs. William Adger Moffett on the arm of her husband, Rear Admiral Moffett, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. Eight pretty girls from Macon, Ga. The huge silver bow of the ZRS-5-. . . Mrs. Moffett mounted a bunting-draped platform, pulled a red-white-&-blue cord. Two hatches in the airship's nose flopped open and out flew 48 startled pigeons. Cried Mrs. Moffett: "I christen thee Macon!"* Mighty cheers for the third dirigible built...
...Stephen Chapman Simms heard that, he hastened upstairs to find Assistant Curator J. Eric Thompson of Central & South American Archeology brandishing a cluster of knotted strings. Few of the world's museums have even one quipu, and probably none has more than two. A quipu is a long cord, made of plant fibre, to which are tied other cords. The ancient inhabitants of Peru used them to count population, military reinforcements, llama flocks. Knots in the dependent cords represent units of 100, 10 and 1, depending on position. "An expedition might spend months working in Peru," exulted Director Simms...