Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is not enough time, say the pilots, for figuring out the dashes or jags of the slopeline system. Sometimes a pilot can see only one line of lights and he does not know which one. At the crowded instant of transfer, the angled lights play tricks with perspective. Pilots landing safely but in a trembling sweat have reported that they saw the lights as a ladder plunging toward the earth...
...success of The Mouse was instant and immense. The League of Nations endorsed him. Madame Tussaud put him in her famous wax museum. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devoted a separate article to the little fellow. He was the Nizam of Hyderabad's favorite movie star. Jan Christian Smuts, Avila Camacho, Mackenzie King declared in his favor. Franklin D. Roosevelt never missed a Mickey cartoon. Mussolini adored him; Hitler hated him. The Russians called him a proletarian symbol; however, the line changed in time, and Mickey is now a "warmonger...
...Again the former Andover captain was affective. Alert and moving into the play at the right instant, Pointer throttled several Northeastern scoring threats before materialization could be realized within the Yale zone...
...watch it go down, and then you'll see a big green ball where it was." The sun falls as if jerked below the horizon, and for a long instant a big, green, sun-sized ball hangs in its place...
From Rocks to Scotch. 3M's many handed business was born with a single discovery during World War 1: a new kind of sandpaper that flexed without cracking or shedding the abrasive. It was followed by a waterproof "Wetordry" sandpaper that was an instant success in the auto industry; for the first time carmakers could wet surfaces to be sanded or polished, thus eliminating heat and dust. In 1930, 3M brought out Scotch tape, and started a new industry. The tape replaced pins, string and glue, was put to work mending, sealing packages, insulating wires, masking paint jobs. Today...