Word: heights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They are to take aloft a self-recording electroscope whose invention Dr. Millikan announced from Pasadena last week. It is ten times as sensitive to cosmic rays as any other electroscope he knows of. Vibration does not disturb it. Hence unlearned Army fliers are to take up replicas to heights of from 20,000 to 25,000 ft. Co-inventors of the new Millikan electroscope were Professors Ira Sprague Bowen. and Henry Victor Neher who works under Dr. Millikan at Caltech. The highest Dr. Millikan has sent an electroscope was in a free balloon to 9.6 miles, a height surpassed...
...have soared to a height of 5,248 ft. Lucerne and Rigi stretch magically beneath us, remote and beautiful in the radiance of this perfect day. . . . We are perspiring profusely...
Professor Piccard had, as he promised, taken greater precautions for his second flight. He was not seeking a new altitude record. A height of ten miles, as before, would satisfy his purpose of studying fur ther the origin of cosmic rays. His last observations agreed with famed Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan that the rays emanate from between the stars.* The new aluminum gondola which he had built to carry himself and his new assistant, Max Cosyns, 25, was superior to last year's which, covered with tourists' scratchings, rests in the library of the Free University, Brussels...
...Jefferson, two U. S. contestants who had been expected to fight it out with Miller for the Olympic championship. At 14:3, Nishida had tried three times and missed, then watched Miller shake the bar with his arm as he managed to clear it on his last try. The height of the bar at the middle?14:1?? was an Olympic record but 2½ in. shy of Bill Graber's historic vault in the trials...
Typhus fever usually manifests itself by a sudden chill and a rise of body temperature to 104° or 105° F. Temperature remains at that exhausting height for 13 or 14 days. Until the ninth day the victim usually is nauseated, has wracking headache. About the ninth day the headache fades, delirium ensues. The patient is apt to be wild and active, or he may be capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th...