Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permit nation to shout at nation, but radio can also shout a neighbor down. Germany reported a mystery station which blanketed the European air with static during Chancellor Hitler's Nürnberg speech. Similar reports charged German stations with sending out code signals on the Prague wave length to obliterate Premier Hodza's speech. In Germany, listening to Moscow's broadcasts has long been a criminal offense...
...nitrogen compounds, among them cadaverine*), as silky as silk itself, can be produced in sizes one-tenth to one-seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that it can be stretched up to 700% of its normal length. So far no one has attempted to produce it commercially. Hence chemists do not know what it will cost, though it is estimated it will be somewhat dearer than rayon, may cost even as much as silk. If it could be manufactured inexpensively, however, it seemed likely to threaten silk...
Printed on fine paper the original scroll was six feet, eight inches long, and two feet, 5-16 inches in width, but years of deterioration have reduced it to a mere fragment of three feet in length. It was remounted, when discovered, on a substantial silk cloth...
...staff is less concerned with comparative size than with the problem of administering what is already there so that books will be quickly and easily available. To this end the length of time during which a book may be kept out of the library has been reduced from a month to two weeks. This change was made last spring...
...picture for double features because of its length (106 min.), it should persuade even cinemaddicts who are sour on newsreels that they would do well to give Graham McNamee one more chance. Good shot: picture within a picture, when Miss Loy sees the newsreel Clark Gable has pretended to destroy, at a Manhattan preview...