Word: metered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five meter waves, which have many of the diffractional qualities of light, can be transmitted satisfactorily it has been found, for distances up to fifty miles. Thus the airplane or balloon can cover a wide area away from the home station without losing contact...
...members of the student body whose radios are equipped for the reception of five meter impulses can hear these signals being transmitted at 3:45 every morning, the hour of ascent for the Army plane...
...sanctuary for crooks who were "hot" elsewhere so long as they behaved themselves decently within the city limits. This easy-going relationship lasted a generation, and the O'Connor tradition did not die when he did in 1924. Such latter-day bad men as the late Homer Van Meter and "Machine Gun" Kelly found the city a comfortable retreat. But the old reciprocity of the O'Connor regime lapsed. In little more than three years St. Paul has been the scene of three major kidnappings, and last year Attorney General Cummings singled it out as the "nation...
...first opportunity Dr. Haggard and his laboratory Associate Chemist Leon A. Greenberg rigged up the following apparatus at New Haven: a large glass tube through which the experimenters couid exhale into bottles containing fluids having affinities for garlic and onion odors; a gas meter to measure the amount of breath Drs. Haggard and Greenberg exhaled; a suction pump to pull their breath through the detector apparatus...
...swallowed one-twentieth of an ounce. He waited five minutes, took the glass tube in his mouth, exhaled one-tenth pint of air. Then he stuck his tongue into the tube to cork it, took a breath, exhaled again into the apparatus. This procedure he repeated until the gas meter indicated that he had breathed and exhaled five quarts of air. Of the one-twentieth of an ounce of garlic which Dr. Haggard had chewed and swallowed, every quart of air he exhaled carried away only one ten-millionth of an ounce of garlic oil (diallyl disulfide...