Word: meter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Adjusting Camera. A movie camera that automatically adjusts its lens for variations in the amount of light was announced by Bell & Howell Co. A photoelectric cell like a standard light meter controls two small electric motors (powered by tiny batteries) that adjust the lens opening to prevailing light conditions. Price...
...Limit. By the end of Breen's first year of competitive swimming Counsilman's counsel was paying off. Breen could churn the 440 in 4:56. Last year he was fast enough to win the Eastern Intercollegiate and A.A.U. 1,500-meter championship. In June Coach Counsilman took off on a leave from Cortland to be physical fitness director of Philadelphia's Broadwood Health Institute, but he kept control of Breen's training by telephone and letter, nursed and egged him on to this year's Eastern Intercollegiate 1,500-meter title. Then he went...
Trained to a split second, Breen did just what Counsilman expected of him. In Yale's 50-meter "long-course" pool last fortnight he flailed through each 100-meter segment of his 1,500-meter grind in almost identical times-never under 1:13, never over 1:13.9. He touched the finish line in 18:05.9, an eye-bugging 13.1 seconds under the world mark (TIME, April 9) held since 1949 by Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, became the first American ever to hold that long-distance record...
Last week, in the same pool, he clocked 18:20.2 for 1,500 meters to win the A.A.U. title. The slower time was intentional-Breen kept on going until he had finished a full mile in the water, finished in 19:40.4, a new world record. Another Counsilman protegé, Frankie Brunnell, 17, of Philadelphia's Vesper Swim Club, finished second in the 1,500-meter with a commendable 19:38.2. Later in the week, Breen won another title with a fast 4:30.1 in the 440-just two seconds slower than the world record...
...just a few days after Japanese meteorologists detected air disturbances from Soviet tests in Siberia, he set two large porcelain dishes filled with water in the yard behind his Tokyo laboratory and let dust settle into them for 24 hours. He evaporated the water and got from each square meter 150 milligrams (.005 oz.) of dust. Most of it was ordinary dirt from Tokyo's grimy atmosphere, but the remainder was highly radioactive, and could be analyzed...