Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Work Is Fun. "Sometimes," says Houghton, "we start out with one objective and end up with something 180° in the other direction." Fifteen years ago, random research at Corning led to a photosensitive glass. Then, imprinting images with ultraviolet rays and heat, Corning tried to market the glass as decorative wall panels. The effort flopped, but curious scientists found that intricate images could be easily etched on the new glass with acid. Now it serves in miniaturized printed circuits for missile systems. With such attention to the laboratory, Corning has built a file of 100,000 different formulas...
...film has been off the track for fifteen minutes," I said as tactfully as possible. The projectionist looked up, ready to deny this: "Nobody," he said logically, "whistled or nothin...
Pleading now, the little man confessed: "I didn't want to come to this movie. My wife said I had to come to it. For fifteen minutes it has been blurry and I have gone half blind. Please, mister...
...lacks a plot ("Haven't I met you somewhere before?"--it's a mediocre line at a party), it has no characters. The leading man is reduced to a one-dimensional figure who stares intently at a girl. She scratches her right shoulder with her left hand ten or fifteen times, and turns away from his PIERCING glance...
Somebody has said that after fifteen minutes at this movie you get the joke. Maybe...