Word: lamped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lamp, The midnight hour is past...
...Even though a doctor is in the Winter of his years and the machine is growing very creaky, he must never let the icicles gather about the heart nor permit the lamp of pity to be extinguished in his soul...
...imperceptible cushion of air held between a thumb and forefinger when their tips rub gently against each other is thicker than the film of glass with which Westinghouse Lamp Co. is sealing certain of its vacuum tubes. That glass is one five-thousandth of an inch thick. Last week Dr. Charles Morse Slack, the company's research physicist, received its annual $500 award for accomplishing the thin sealing...
...expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats a sorcerer in settings and among characters taken from the Arabian Nights. Aladdin is there, though now he has to light his lamp instead of rubbing it to summon genii. There are the Sultan, the Magic Horse, the fairy Peri-Banov, the Princess Dinarzade. Like contortionism and sword-swallowing, the picture is remarkable principally because its technique was difficult, but it is a nice fairy story. Good shots among the 300,000 scenes...
...Rome flyer, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Capt. Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte. He has approved Government help given to scientific institutions, Smithsonian Institution, etc.; in 1929 he appointed 17 delegates to the World Engineering Congress, Tokyo; he spoke at the 50th anniversary of invention of the incandescent lamp; he appointed a committee to study social trends, put Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn, University of Chicago, in charge; he plans to invite Albert Einstein to the White House...