Word: layered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss at the other end of the White House, he has lunch at his desk at 1 o'clock. He talks frequently with the President by telephone, sees him two or three times a week. Most of his day is taken up with conferences with the great layer of civilian and war-agency administrators below him; there are telephone conversations with Senators and Representatives, reading of reports and memorandums, plotting of strategy with his seasoned idea man, Benjamin Victor Cohen. (Except for idealistic Ben Cohen, Jimmy Byrnes's staff consists of but three others: Donald Russell, his onetime...
...lens, the various colors do not come to a focus at exactly the same distance from the lens. Violet and blue light are more sharply bent in their path than is red, hence focus nearer to the lens. If the blues are sharply in focus in the upper layer of a photographic film, then the reds will be in focus deeper in the film. This is well known under the name of chromatic aberration. Birch-Field's novel realization is that every film thus contains a pattern of silver atoms which, in effect, registers the original colors...
...crossed a high ridge climbing an almost impossibly steep path covered with a thick layer of soft wet mud. The forest was soaking wet and the dripping mist in the treetops cast a sepulchral gloom over everything. Here we met a man, emaciated, filthy, saturated to the skin, staggering blindly forward, murmuring the word "Indoo," India, the goal to which he had been pressing literally for months. This Chinese soldier was alone, a thousand miles from home, and dying on his feet. Yet he was still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about...
...without WPB's labyrinthine channels of authority. He did not know about the crew of second-rate dollar-a-year men-ex-salesmen and promoters whose chief duty as businessmen had been to act pleasant-which had grown so big that Washington called it WPB's "flimflam layer...
...even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens' Defense Corps: two twelve-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching. Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer-but not the Army...