Word: glow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James' use of the Negro dialect is superb. His story has tang and originality. It is a merry tale in an unusual vein and never loses the feeling for childhood or its stormy fun. He returns us to a land we had long lost and so restores a hearty glow we had not felt for so very long a time...
...Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World Waits is based on fact "in no sense other than purely creative." Commander Hartley (Blaine Cordner), an affable, scout-masterish publicity hound, is in such a glow over U. S. annexation of Antarctica that he is not aware his men call him a tinplate hero behind his back, or that his pompous planting of flags and food caches has consumed precious time which might prevent the relief ship from getting through the fast-knitting ice. When radio...
...through a loudspeaker into a reverberation chamber filled with gas. Some of the sound is absorbed by the walls instead of by the gas, but this is calculated and discounted. The sound is picked up by a microphone, amplified, converted into electric current which causes a bulb to glow. If the sound has decayed beyond a certain level the current produced is insufficient to light the bulb. The time is measured between the cessation of tone production and the point in decay at which there is just enough current to cause the glowing of the bulb...
...insects and the lowest forms of life. It is estimated that there are over two billion one-celled animals of various types kept by the department in glass jars and long cement tubes. There are, however, 50 large mussels, 75 ordinary frogs and 3 African bullfrogs, 300 minnows, 500 glow flies, 2 crayfish 30 leaches, 5000 tadpoles, 125 lizards of different kinds, about 100,000 worms of several varieties, some 300 tropical fish 350 mice and 15 rats included in the collection...
...bulb itself has four terminals, two for the filament, and is filled with neon gas and metallic sodium. When the current is switched on, an arc light springs from the filament, takes on a red glow from the neon gas, then a yellow glow from the evaporation of the filament. The bulb consumes 80 watts of electricity, but because it produces so much more light than the ordinary lamp of that wattage, its sponsors claim that it is not only more efficient but, once installed, is more economical. Chief problems have been that sodium attacks ordinary glass and that...