Word: lightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type of quartz mercury vapor bulb for generating ultraviolet light developed...
Observers waited all last week to see what answer U. S. Protestants might make to a Vatican pronouncement of last fortnight credited to the Pope in person. Said the Pope: "Protestantism is getting more and more exhausted. . . . Behold Catholicism, which shines in the clear light, while Protestantism goes from denial to denial, rendering ever more intense in many souls that follow the invitation of truth a homesickness for returning to Catholicism...
...Professor Floyd Karker Richtmyer's physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor "developed" electronic engravings on gold, iodine on silver, hydrochloric acid on zinc, iodine on copper...
...tube the cathode shoots a stream of electrons at a hard metal target. The electrons heat up a spot of the metal so that it gives off invisible light rays, the X-rays...
...Manner. Author Dreiser has no sense of style, would be hard to imitate. His writing is ponderous, jumbled, awkward. This is typical: "Indeed, the life and light that was in her, if life and light it was, was a wholly quaint and laura-jean-shian thing, a smattering or perhaps, better yet, compote of hearsay culture as well as utility . . . plus gentility that was innate but colored by spindrift and spume concerning how ladies and gentlemen in some fabulous land of gentility (England principally, I believe; the old South next) conducted themselves...