Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number of years physicists and engineers have been working on the problem of providing a source of very high voltage X-Rays which would approximate in wave length the gamma rays of radium, and which could be produced in intensities equaling the output of several hundred grams of this element...
...most powerful of the Columbia crews will be the 150 pound beat. The 150's beat Yale by a quarter of a length on the Harlem last Saturday--the only Morning side eight to win a race in that Blackwell Regatta...
Aside from this race, it looks like comparatively smooth sailing for Crimson boats. The Freshmen from Columbia are not very strong, and Harvey Love's fast improving outfit should be able to set them back by about a length...
...Hindenburg" was the largest airship ever built, being 811 feet in length and having a gas volume of 7,063,0000 cubic feet. Its weight was 200 tons. The American ships "Akron" and "Macon" were both 785 feet long. The "Akron" crashed in a storm off New Jersey in 1933, causing the death of 73 people. The "Macon" fell off California in 1935, only losing 2 lives...
Ahead of this crew no soft snaps are waiting. Saturday they meet a Tech crew that is anxious to reverse the tables and a Columbia eight that licked Yale by a quarter of a length. Just how much that means is still to be seen, but the race is likely to be close enough to mean that for the second time in as many weeks, the fifties will provide most of the thrills of the Regatta...