Word: nether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invented (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et ante). Fast moving paper belts brush against an overhead metallic container which accumulates huge charges of electricity. In the Trump modification this electricity is poured into a tremendous x-ray tube which projects downward through the floor into the room below. At the nether end of the tube is a window of gold from which the 1,000,000-volt rays stream. The patient is simply placed beneath the stream when he requires treatment...
...conversation is straightforward, if sometimes redundant, and he is quite capable of conveying, if not originating, an acceptable image. Sonorously he speaks of the democratic necessity, in these troubled political times, of a large, well-disciplined, contented bloc of organized workers between "the upper millstone of capitalism, and the nether millstone of radicalism...
...material polarizes about 99.9% of the transmitted light. Other uses for Physicist Land's discovery: three-dimensional (stereoscopic) movies in color;- sunglasses which filter out glare without discoloring the view; transparent models of working parts which show up areas of strain; beams permitting dermatologists to see into the nether layers of the skin...
...Howards stand next to the Blood Royal. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk is empowered, as the hereditary Earl Marshal of England, to bear ''in the King's presence or absence" a golden staff, the upper part adorned with the arms of the Royal Family, the nether part with those of the Family of Howard. The great Duke of Norfolk is charged as Earl Marshal with the proclamation of a new King's accession, with the supervision of the funeral of a late King, of the Coronation of his successor and thereafter, if a bachelor King...
...Healy's portrayal of an American news hound contributes a great deal. An alarming atmosphere is created at the very beginning by a scary voice from the nether reaches of the theatre warning queasy patrons to get out before they're carried out--or words to that effect. "Mad Love" is pretty macabre, though, and brilliantly photographed, and we highly recommend...