Word: inched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agassiz Station in the town of Harvard will also hold open house during the first three days of this week. Visitors will be shown the new 60-foot Agassiz radio telescope and the 61-inch Wyeth Reflector...
...such interests as the Boy Scouts. Stricken with polio at three, he still walks with a slight limp that keeps him out of active sports and kept him out of service in World War II. Uncomfortable about missing military service, he once said, holding a forefinger a quarter-inch above his desk top: "When it comes to measuring who has given up most for his country. I measure about this high.'' But in the opinion of official and unofficial Washington. Bob Anderson is well on the way to measuring much higher than most men can reach...
...tiny slabs of ivory, some no more than half an inch in diameter, are preserved the faces of major Colonial, Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary figures as painted by America's most skillful miniaturists (opposite). Some of them pack immense values into a minuscule space-accuracy of the likeness, deftness of characterization, clarity of form, purity of texture, a glow of the ivory through the delicate colors to enhance the flesh tones. They were achieved with a meticulousness that required as many as 50 sittings for a portrait, demanded thousands of stipple or hatch brush strokes so infinitesimal that they...
...administer a control system for the jet age, Curtis last week recommended that the Airways Modernization Board be succeeded eventually by an even larger civil-military Federal Aviation Agency, which would absorb CAA and part of CAB. Empowered to police every inch of airspace, the new agency would probably lead to a new Cabinet-level boss for U.S. aviation. Meanwhile, CAA is planning a six-year, $810 million program of buying new electronic control equipment. It also hopes to boost present personnel from 16,000 to 24,000 in the next three years, will extend its radio and radar control...
...licked. To keep the ink from joining the clay, they dissolved it in oil and churned it into microscopic droplets in a solution of gelatin and other gummy colloids. Then they caused the gelatin to precipitate on the oil droplets, enclosing them in capsules only one ten-thousandth inch in diameter. This trick solved the problem. The capsules and clay can be on the same side of the paper, but the paper remains white until pressure of a pencil or impact of a typewriter breaks the capsules; then the ink mixes with clay and turns blue...