Word: finer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also, the way in which the article is set forth indicates your staff has a neat regard for and appreciation of the finer contributions to human progress we all so desperately need. Journalistically the "out of the mud" story is something of a classic...
...electron microscope leads scientists a long way downward into the realm of the infinitesimally small. Using magnetically focused electron beams instead of light beams, it discloses details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...
...ever know wines that were finer...
...body is much smaller than the wave length, it will slip through like a mosquito through a fishing net. Electron beams are also wave trains, but their wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of light. So, in effect, they give scientists a collecting net of far finer mesh...
Typical of Toby's humor is his bantering with Maria, who warns him to "confine yourself within the modest limits of order." He counters: "Confine: I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too." There is certainly nothing "dated" in this joke to spoil it, but it would hardly rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce...