Word: meshes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three days later the bomb squad followed a tip to Times Square's famed Paramount Theater, searched high and low after the last show, found another pipe-bomb hidden in a seventeenth-row seat. Two detectives dressed in protective steel clothing gingerly loaded the bomb into a steel-mesh enclosed police truck, whisked it out to a lonely beach...
Shadows on the Water Garden. Embassy workers will look out into an enclosed court and water garden, screened over with metal-mesh aluminum to break the sunlight and give the effect of light filtering through tree branches. "With the courtyard," Stone points out. "the building will also get cross ventilation when it is not necessary to use the air conditioning." To set .off the building, Stone is using "another Oriental device," a pool to reflect the structure...
...bureaucrats and bemedaled officers of the Kremlin guard in gold-braided green uniforms. Tito contrived to look unimpressed. His handsome, dark-skinned wife Jovanka outshone the dowdy official Russian wives with her wardrobe of elegant evening gowns of white silk, black lace over bronze-red, her red stole, gold mesh bag and rubies, and her day suits of pink brocade and lavender silk. At the ballet Tito looked bored...
...size of a radio telescope is determined by the diameter of its "dish," a parabolic wire mesh which receives radio waves in much the same manner as the mirror of an optical telescope receives light waves...
...size of a radio telescope is determined by the diameter of its "dish," a parabolic wire mesh which receives light waves. Radio telescopes have these advantages over optical telescopes: they can be used in daylight and in bad weather, and they "see" through interstellar dust, a factor making them particularly practical for observing the Milky Way. The larger the "dish," the better the definition of the subject observed...