Word: inch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which were likewise sheathed in metal to guide the electrons on their way. At the tube's end was the main feature of the invention, the "window." This constituted a vast improvement upon the aluminum disc of earlier experiments. It was a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin and three inches in diameter, supported against the 100-pound suction of the vacuum tube by skeleton struts of molybdenum. The molecular structure of nickel is such that molecules of air (oxygen, nitrogen) cannot pass through it, though it offers a minimum of resistance to those billionth parts...
When Dr. Coolidge ordered his 350,000-volt current turned on, a prodigious stream of electrons leapt from the hot cathode, moving perhaps two miles per second. Rebounding from the metal cup about the cathode, they raced off down the 12-inch exit passage of the tube until, when they reached the "window," they were going some 150,000 m.p.s. (four-fifths the speed of light). Their volume was virtually undiminished as they shot through the thin nickel foil and out into heavy, molecular air, where their effects were at once visible and startling...
Back in the gay '90s when a horse was a horse, and mere man's civilization revolved about a centre of equine transportation, white wings were society's props. Archie Inch was a white wing; so was Archie's father; so was Archie's grandfather; just so all Inches, by birth, tradition, inheritance, were white wings. Alas! that the horse must go the way of all flesh, that the inhuman horseless carriage should sweep up yesterday's honored white wings, dump them in the rubbish can of outworn traditions. Mary (Winifred Lenihan), faithful...
Frenchmen were vexed last week when thieves entered the Musee Condé at Chantilly and stole three million dollars' worth of jewels belonging to the State. Most valued of the stolen gems is "the Grand Condé," a pink heart-shaped diamond measuring more than half an inch across...
Hundreds of thousands of silly little pieces of paper, oblong, square, three-cornered, printed in faded colors, smudged with ink marks, none of them bigger than a square inch or so, none of them very beautiful, and none of them the least use in the world. Such rubbish, said a woman with an umbrella, eyeing disdainfully a red and black oblong all by itself in a glass case ten times too large for it, such rubbish might as well be burned, and better. She turned away and, crossing a large white granite hall, found a taxi that would take...