Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receiving end by quartz crystal wave filters. Last week an engineer in one room merely talked to a reporter in the adjoining room, but between speaker and hearer the message made 40 trips between Manhattan and Philadelphia (3,800 miles), the frequency being shifted to a different wave length after every round trip. Then 20 frequencies were poured on the cable at once- which taxed only one-twelfth of its maximum capacity. Even when voices were lowered almost to a whisper, practically no distortion was noticed...
...skils were of Lonwood, a very light flexible material, pointed at both ends to eliminate turning about of the skis, and averaging about 9 feet in length. We each carried a maple pole, spear shaped, about seven to eight feet long, with which to propell ourselves through the snow, first one side, then the other and then between our legs...
...studied some curious footprints which had been called to his attention, advanced the theory that they were those of huge prehistoric birds. That was in 1858. Later scientists definitely attributed the tracks to Triassic dinosaurs of various sizes and unknown species. Some 20 individual prints were visible, ranging in length from three to 18 inches. The biggest tracks and the longest strides indicated that the largest lizard was 25 ft. long. The trustees of Massachusetts Public Reservations bought the surrounding land from its owner. President George E. Pellissier of Holyoke Street Railway Co., turned it into a prehistoric monument...
...bulge-orbed comedian dealt at length on many aspects of the field of radio, television, and the future of the broadcasting industry. In connection with news broadcasts, Cantor cut loose with the crack that "the power of the press is an outdated phrase. . . . judging by the last election...
...stern, so that it can be towed by one of the auxiliary train at a rate of ten knots. Also in its stern there will be a pair of huge dam gates that will reveal, when opened, a great rectangular chasm, 125 ft. wide and running almost the entire length of the craft, into which disabled ships will be pushed at sea. When an ailing battleship is brought into position before the ARD-3, the dock's great bottom tanks will be pumped full of water to sink its keel below that of the battleship...