Word: intervale
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Some 5,000 persons, one by one, climbed into the driver's seat, took hold of the steering wheel, put right foot on the accelerator, left foot on the floorboards, looked at the green traffic light in the pillar before them. The scene was not a highway but the psychological...
A transmitter sends out one radio wave that travels along the ground and another that travels out into the atmosphere at different angles. A measurement of the time interval between the reception of the ground and the angle waves, the "echo," at a distant station, reveals the altitude and position...
The type of speaker which such a plan demanded appeared on the platform at the stated time. The men who conducted Round Tables knew what was expected of them and did not spend the two hour interval wondering what statements would draw forth the greatest number of questions Sever 11...
¶In Sharon, Pa., Mrs. John Ondich gave birth to a daughter and, after a 36-hour interval, to two sons. Mr. John Ondich has no job.
The Great American Novel has not yet been written. Herman Melville did several chapters of it, Walt Whitman some chapter headings, Henry James an appendectiform footnote. Mark Twain roughed out the comic bits, Theodore Dreiser made a prehistoric-skeleton outline, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway all contributed suggestions...