Word: difference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such infinitesimal lines accurately on hard metal or glass. Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum off an electric coil so that the aluminum vapor deposits itself on the glass. At Johns Hopkins...
Though Campbell still sells an over whelming proportion of soup, H. J. ("57 Varieties") Heinz Co. can now claim the perfectly respectable title of No. 2 U. S. soup-maker. George A. Hormel & Co. is No. 3. Heinz and Hormel soups differ from Campbell's in two important respects: 1) they are not condensed, are served without dilution; 2) they cost more. Most Campbell varieties retail for from 10? to 11? per can or three for 25?. Heinz and Hormel soups, which come in larger cans, seldom get below...
...Commencement Day speakers differ from the Class Day speakers in that the latter are elected by the Senior Class as an independent unit, while the Commencement Day speakers represent the University as a whole. The Class Day oration is primarily a class affair and so is elective...
Thus transferred to Edward VIII was the genial nickname Scotsmen bestowed on his grandfather King Edward VII. Scottish authorities differ as to whether this venerable Sovereign was called "Good old Teddy!" because his figure somewhat resembled that of the popular Teddy Bear, created in the year of his accession (1901). From now on in Scotland 41-year-old King Edward is good old Teddy...
What the Curtis Cup is to women golfers, the Wolfe-Noel Cup is to women squash racqueters: a prize for a U. S. v. England team match, played alternately in England and the U. S. British squash racquets differ considerably from squash racquets in the U. S. The court is wider, the ball slower. Games are nine points instead of 15. Consequently the U. S. team which won the cup last year in Boston was at a considerable disadvantage defending it last week in London. However, not even onlookers who had seen members of the U. S. side being beaten...