Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tasmania for the first time, Dr. Millikan will use a new, streamlined cosmic ray counting apparatus. It is a light structure of four shelves, enclosed within an oval framework about three feet long, covered with black cellophane to keep out light. The two upper shelves in the black football each contain two Geiger counters, or ionization tubes which detect the arrival of cosmic ray particles. On the shelves below the counters are eight radio tubes. Connected to the counters and tubes is a light, compact short-wave radio transmitter with an aerial. When the apparatus is attached to a balloon...
...evening last week, the Roosevelt chin protruded over a small table drawn up before his couch in the Oval Room, his upstairs White House study. Seated on straight-backed chairs facing him were Charles McNary and Warren Austin, the No. 1 & 2 Republicans of the Senate, and William Edgar Borah, the Senate's dean on Foreign Affairs. Seated nearby also were "Dear Alben" Barkley, the loyal but bemused Senate Majority Leader; Secretary of State Hull; Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee, White House Secretary Steve Early. Slowly revolving a cigar between pursed lips, looking more than ever...
Suspicious of his motives, the Congress voted not to turn Franklin Roosevelt loose in world power politics. The scene one night last week upstairs in the Oval Room at the White House, with the President of the United States making one last, futile plea to a steadfast coalition of Senators grouped against his brand of Neutrality marked the nadir of collapse. In rapid succession other collapses followed...
...racing fans know that England's famed Derby, prototype of all U. S. derbies, is run on grass instead of dirt, over a U-shaped track instead of an oval, up-&-down-hill instead of on the flat and over a distance of i| miles instead of i|. But every U. S. racing fan knows that the English Derby is the most famed horse race in the world, is the basis for one of the three Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes held each year and that some $4,000,000 of U. S. money is gambled annually on the Derby lottery...
...Lightbody's 1.58.4 victory in the 880 featured the second day of the annual University handicap meet on the Stadium oval Saturday...