Word: fining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts is still showing "The Moonlight Sonata," an ocacsional en- picture built about the magnificent playing of Paderwski. That this is more of a recital than a movie is a point in its favor...
...misbehavior on a public highway were: Harvard's President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, who had his Massachusetts license permanently revoked after two accidents last August, sued for $35,000 damages; Peter G. Lehman, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who paid a $2 fine for improper parking; German-American Bundleader Fritz Kuhn, who was fined $2 for driving across a white line on Manhattan's Queensboro Bridge...
This story is likely to be told whenever U. S. physicists and astronomers get together socially or professionally, but only to very young scientists because all the older ones know it. Today, prankish Dr. Wood is a hale old man with a fine pink skin and clear blue eyes, who scorns an overcoat on the coldest days and goes about like a college boy, with garterless socks drooping over his shoes. He is full of years and honors, and more cognizant of the latter than of the former. But he was 70 last May, and Johns Hopkins requires retirement...
Splitting Light. The important work which Robert Williams Wood is now doing is the manufacture of diffraction gratings. A diffraction grating is a plate of glass, metal or metal-on-glass on which a series of very fine, parallel lines are ruled close together. In combination with lenses, such a grating breaks up a beam of mixed light, such as the light from a star, into its component wave lengths-that is, it furnishes, as a prism does, a spectrum of bright and dark lines which identify the fundamental elements of matter. The iridescence of mother-of-pearl...
...fine October morning 40 years ago, the steamer Yukoner, bound upriver for Dawson with passengers and supplies, tied up for the winter in a small tributary of the Yukon, 1,400 miles from Dawson. The weather was getting cold, one of the Yukoners boilers had blown up, and she was in danger of being crushed in the ice if she remained in the river. For the captain, crew, passengers and the general manager of the company operating the Yukoner, her failure to reach Dawson was a catastrophe; in those gold-rush days a Yukon River steamer paid for itself...