Word: matchboxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next larger context-a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, environment in a city plan." The second, Eero learned one day when he went to visit a girl friend, leaving half-done at home his design for a matchbox-emblem contest. When young Eero asked to stay longer, he was firmly ordered home, told: "Competitions come first, girls second...
...opener; it proved a smash hit and carried the show for a month-long run. Some crib notes were submitted attached to all manner of haberdashery and footwear (usually pasted on insteps). But first prize went to a crib note running on tiny rollers, all concealed in a matchbox equipped with apertures for covert reading. Second prize: an inch-square scrap of onionskin paper bearing complete summaries, in three colors of ink, of three subjects. Third prize: an innocuous-looking chunk of rock crystal, ostensibly a paperweight, actually, when viewed from the proper angle, a powerful magnifier of a series...
...step will be to build a voice-powered receiver. It will store up voice-electricity while the speaker is talking, then use it to pick up the answer while he is listening. Bryan believes that the entire outfit can be tucked into a plastic container no bigger than a matchbox. Mass-produced cost...
...energy generated escapes in the form of neutrinos-small, uncharged particles that pass through matter as if it were not there. Eventually, the star becomes hollow (in a sense) and collapses. Because of the density of its center (100 to 1,000 tons of its matter would fill a matchbox), the star's gravitation is extremely strong, and thus the collapse happens very fast. The star shrinks down to almost nothing in about one second. Then it blows itself to smithereens, giving off for a fortnight as much light as 200 million suns...
...that I never lacked. Sometimes I made it myself, fermenting the juice I squeezed out of bunches of dried grapes that I got from a fellow prisoner in exchange for many platefuls of 'Volga.' I kept this precious wine in a perfume bottle the size of a matchbox...