Word: linearities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...domestic films sent abroad measured 138,656,880 linear feet and were worth $5,417,745. Last year, similar exports were valued at $6,181,917 and totaled 170,347,342 feet. It is expected that 1925 will establish new high records for domestic footage exported. The money values here included represent only the cost of the actual positive prints shipped and not the income they produced from rentals. Total value of our foreign export business in films for this year is estimated at $75,000,000. Today, the foreign business of the large U. S. producers constitutes about...
...fresh water. On this surrounding prairie, there lies a town called Clearing. Here on a piece of open ground, workmen have been busy laying a great amount of twelve-inch water-mains. They are the most curious water-mains that have ever been laid. There are 72,000 linear feet of them, connected with seven tons of lead to make the joints airtight. The labor of laying them alone is said to have cost $7,500. There is no water nearby nor anybody to use water. What is more, the pipe runs approximately in a rectangle 1,800 ft. long...
...search purposes for use of the examining corps to determine novelty of applications for patents. Copies are also kept in stock for the purpose of sale so that they may be available to the public, practically at cost. Such copies number about 50,000,000 and occupy about 20 linear miles of single shelving in the Patent Office, over 200,000 copies of such patents being sold each month for 10¢ each...
...German army, in its next effort towards the west, succeed in breaking the line south or southwest of Amiens, it will then be faced by a problem which its method of advance renders especially difficult. The Germans, since 1870, have consistently employed the methods of what are known as linear strategy; that is, each group of the army advances along its own line of communication, along closely delimited and parallel battle strips. This virtually compels the army to advance in a straight line. And, if a change of direction, as is indicated in the present case, be made...
...Mathematical Club. "Some Intimately Related Linear Problems," by Prof. R. G. D. Richardson, of Brown. Conant Common Room...