Word: modulus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guarded deeply in a Paris cellar is a long platinum bar. When its temperature is that of melting ice (0° Centigrade, 32° Fahrenheit) two marks on that bar are exactly one metre apart. That Paris metre is the modulus of the world's weights and measures.* If the standard bar were lost, and all its master duplicates in the capitals of civilized countries, scientists would be hard put to recalculate the metre distance, except...
While visiting the show there developed the question of measuring the money's worth offered by the various manufacturers. There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown. Body type was no modulus, nor price, nor size as measured by wheelbase. Yet price considered with size, as arranged in the following tables, might give some clue. Because every motor manufacturer produces a four-door sedan or a model very like one, the data pertains to that type...
...Bert Lowe's dance orchestra working away merrily at one and the same time on 360 meters will no doubt be delighted with this new system for secret wireless communication. To be sure the "air" will no longer be free, tickets to the nightly radio concerts bearing the "modulus" and wave combination will ere long have to be purchased by all who do not wish to be left "out in the cold, cold ether". But at least there will be only one communication coming in out of the sky at a given time-no slight advantage for those who cannot...