Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laboratory. Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing the main current. About this cathode was built another innovation in vacuum tubes, a metal cup designed to repel electrons backfiring against it and converge them forward in a narrow stream at greatly accelerated speed. This stream was pointed down the tube's other neck, a foot long, the sides of which were likewise sheathed in metal to guide the electrons on their way. At the tube...
Andover Academy won the prepartory school cup last year and Arlington High captured the public school event. These same teams are favored again this year. Eighty-four runners in all will travel over the Stadium course this morning...
...Virginia, Dr. R. F. A. Muller (Belgian engineer), Dr. L. A. J. Mercier (French professor at Harvard), Dr. Robert M. Sugars of McGill University (Irish-born). When these five-four foreigners to one U. S. citizen-voted, they were unanimous in awarding the international championship and a silver loving cup to Orator Wenig of the U. S.; second honors to Orator Munoz-Cota of Mexico...
Bill" Tilden, able Davis Cup defender. Besides him walked his wife. C. C. Pyle then glanced here, there, rose, announced: "Ladies, Gentlemen . . . Mr. Vincent Richards, greatest male tennis player in the world . . . is now a professional." An orchestra blared...
...University could take no sweeping action against the townspeople, it severely curbed the carnival aspirations of the students themselves, who probably contributed in no small measure to the cup of revelry. In 1722 there was a law prohibiting the students from preparing or providing either plum cake, or roasted, baked, or boiled meats, or pies of any kind, and from furnishing distilled liquors or any Composition made therewith upon pain of being fined 20 shillings, and the forfeiture of the provisions and liquors, to be seized by the tutors." Evidently distilled liquors, or any Composition made therewith, were not considered...