Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volumes at the middle. When he had impressed his startled auditor with the necessity for beginning at the beginning, he returned to the reporter with another matter. "You know," he opened, "Professor Kittredge sent two of his students here yesterday." He pulled his hat down an inch. "Sure, he told them to ask me a question. If Bacon wrote Shakespere, then who wrote Bacon? Of course, Mr. Samuel's face took on a comprehending grin, "of course, Professor Kittredge is only jesting. But I'm serious about this book. I'll give my fortune and my life to teach...
...Telescope. Mt. Wilson Observatory's 100-inch mirror is the world's biggest telescope mirror now in use. Two hundred inches is the diameter, $12,000,000 the cost of Mt. Wilson's new mirror, still incomplete after years in construction. Plans for an "electronic" telescope, equal in magnifying power to an instrument equipped with a 2,000-inch mirror, were outlined by Dr. Francois Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory. The projected telescope will be electrical, not optical. Dr. Henroteau and his aides have discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots...
...mightiest engines of death in conjunction with a practice among the jumpy as a neurologist. What interested him most among the year's naval novelties were Japan's new 8,500-ton cruisers of the Mo garni class. Looking over the specifications-15 6.1-inch guns, length of 625 feet, speed of 33 knots-he decided that it was almost impossible for that speed and armament to be kept within the 8,500-ton limit. Dr. Parkes hints that they will turn out to be 10,000-ton cruisers. "This battery," said he, referring to their 6.1-inch...
...affected, partly because he is the only U. S. crooner sufficiently present able and mentally alert to be a successful cinemactor. He plays golf in the 703, wants to write short stories, is incorporated under his real name, Harry Lillis Crosby. His acting shoes contain one and a half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob Astors sea captains. His wife, onetime Cinemactress Dixie Lee, calls him the Crooner. Says Crosby : "I'd like to be able to sing like the crooners. The reason is a crooner gets his quota of sentimentality with half...
...peaks is no vacuum. In a valley near Pasadena he had built a mile-long tube of corrugated iron (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Powerful pumps sucked out all but a few stray molecules of air. The U. S. Coast &; Geodetic Survey measured the tube to within .063 of an inch. Then Dr. Michelson measured it. At one end of the tube was a 32-sided mirror which could be spun as fast as a bacteriologist's centrifuge. Light from this end raced down the tube, back from a reflector at the other end. The mirror was turned just fast...