Word: hairbreadths
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Wafers of Accuracy. Sawed into thin slabs, usually no bigger or thicker than a postage stamp, quartz determines a radio sending or receiving channel with hairbreadth accuracy. Tanks with quartz oscillators, for instance, can converse in battle without enemy interference, changing frequencies merely by changing crystals. Using quartz controls, radio stations stay on the beam; hundreds of conversations ride pickaback along a single telephone circuit and are properly unscrambled at the receiving...
...disposal of the British Intelligence. Their assignment: to find out whether a certain invaluable British secret agent was still functioning in Central Europe. Their qualifications: native intelligence and the fact that, as genteel trippers, they are Above Suspicion. Result: a tense maze of typically Hitchcock bit players, business and hairbreadth escapes...
...motor-coach system . . . makes the old, large newspaper impractical to read while riding." Thus last week the Seattle Star gave its reason for becoming the Pacific Northwest's first tabloid. There were other reasons. They were something of a tabloid story in themselves-a story of mismanaged inheritance, hairbreadth financial escapes, family squabbling...
...England: Indian Summer is thronged with other New Englanders. There was the aging Whittier at his Amesbury cottage with the harebells in the garden room. "Sometimes, recalling his hairbreadth escapes in the anti-slavery days . . . the old man would leap from his seat. . . ." There was Julia Ward Howe. In the electric days of 1861, she had written The Battle Hymn of the Republic in one half-hour of genius that never returned again. Now she "rumble-tumbled" through the Newport season, communing with Kant and Spinoza, organizing her "picnics with a purpose"-"an hour or two of botany...
Last week, steady and alert, the young man marched into a scientific meeting at the New York Academy of Medicine with some 50 patients of 48-year-old Otolaryngologist Julius Lempert. All had been cured of apparently hopeless deafness by an operation of hairbreadth delicacy, developed in Europe 15 years ago. Its name: "endaural fenestration...