Word: millionths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hatched. The sun is a spendthrift when you consider that only a minute fraction of its light & heat ever reaches anything in space. "So must research be lavish." Many an unhampered experiment at Eastman tends to stray from the field of photography. In a vacuum of one-millionth atmospheric pressure, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman is distilling pure Vitamins A and D from animal oils. An X-ray device has been developed which tells genuine from imitation leather, and which reveals the minutest internal details of insects, down to embryonic skeletons in unlaid eggs. A method of developing sensitized paper...
...damage, because it will irrigate thousands of acres of tillable land and because it will generate electricity to run the wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five-foot brushwood dam across the head waters of an arroyo, and costing only a millionth part of Boulder Dam, is an undesirable project or a waste of money? Can we say that the great brick high school, costing $2,000,000 is a useful expenditure but that a little wooden school house project, costing $10,000, is a wasteful extravagance...
...miniature electric motor produces one one-millionth horsepower...
...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...
...hours later Dr. Haggard again breathed into the machine, which showed that each quart of his breath then contained one two-hundred-millionth of an ounce of garlic oil. This amount "was easily detected by the sense of smell," declared Drs. Haggard and Greenberg last fortnight when they announced the results of their investigation in the American Medical Association's Journal...