Word: metalic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Standard Oil Co. ordered, and the Stout Metal Airplane Co. of Michigan promised delivery on Aug. 10 of a "flying house...
...Meredith, famed middle-distance runner of a decade ago, surveyed a cinder track that stretched away, a curving, gun-metal line, from where he sat in the grandstand at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. On that track, in the course of the afternoon, he saw the runners of the University of Southern California win the 120-yd. hurdles, the 220-yd. hurdles, the discus throw, the Intercollegiate Track and Field Championship, with Princeton second, Yale third. He saw two runners-Tierney of Holy Cross, Marsters of Georgetown-each miss by just half a second his famed intercollegiate records for the quarter...
...greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought the number of U.S. patents in his name to over...
...Prof. Fink has also perfected a method of restoring corroded metal antiquities by reversing the destructive electrolytic action now known to be set up in metals by the conjunction of air and moisture upon them (TIME...
...example of Transvaal Platinum, Ltd. has been contagious, and other prospectors have also found the precious metal in adjoining districts of the Witwatersrand, although in many cases not in paying quantities. Enough has been done to indicate that a very large section of the Central Transvaal may be potentially platinum-bearing...