Word: nickel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, working with able assistants at the Schenectady research laboratories of General Electric, two years ago succeeded more magnificently. For his window he used a sheet of nickel 1/2000 of an inch thin. (Human hair varies between 6/1000 and 126/10,000 of an inch in diameter.) And he used 350,000 volts of current. Electrons hurtled through the nickel foil, speeding about 150,000 miles a second (four-fifths the speed of light). As beta and gamma rays, similar to the offshoots from radium, they turned acetylene gas into a yellow powder such as scientists never before had seen. They...
That the U. S. is "self-sustaining" in most respects but depends almost entirely upon other countries for chromium, manganese, tungsten, nickel, tin, mercury, hemp, rubber, nitrates, coffee, potash...
...Woolworth Co. (everything for a nickel or a dime.)?$35,350,473. Previous year...
...times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith was accustomed to lie under a dining room table, in La Grange, Ky., listening to the stories which his father, a Colonel, would read aloud by the light of a lone, economical candle. Later be became reporter, playwright, saw a movie in a nickel theatre. His first connection with the cinema was that of an actor; he used later to direct Mary Pickford or Mack Sennett, making a picture a day. According to tradition, it was D. W. Griffith who suggested that cinemas be lengthened to two reels, who invented the closeup, who enlarged...
...much money does a clergyman need, for reading out the gospel and mumbling the creed? He lives at home and he doesn't pay rent?if he gets a plugged nickel, he's a very lucky gent...