Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...positive print is placed on a cylinder which revolves 100 times per minute and moves horizontally one inch per minute. A tiny beam of light, trained on the picture at a 45 degree angle, is reflected to a "light valve." Inside the valve is a shutter which vibrates 2,400 times per second-faster than a humming bird's wings. The reflected beam sends the lights & shadows of the picture through the shutter to a conventional photo-electric cell ("electric eye")- There the image is translated into electric impulses which flash over the wires-10.000 mi., if desired...
...Open an inch or two--but always then...
...Year. One prime statistic takes rank above those listed. On Nov. 6, 17,300,000 Democratic votes were cast against 13,370,000 Republican votes. That result, reckoned by the standards of off-year elections and the huge Democratic majority returned in Congress, was every inch a landslide. The disparity between cause and effect represents Roosevelt Magic, the craftsmanship of a man who is master of the art of politics...
...Ambrose Swasey appropriately received a planet for a present. A great benefactor of U. S. engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when it is installed in McDonald Observatory...
...score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under a pile of ashes, wrapped in newspapers, they happened on a safe-deposit box. In it were 79 passbooks and three mortgages, altogether worth $513,000. Spinster Herle's relatives continued to dismantle her home inch by inch...