Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Method. With The Big Money John Dos Passos brought to a close one of the most ambitious projects that any U. S. novelist has undertaken. The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money run to 1,449 pages, detail the careers of some 13 major characters and a host of minor ones, picture such widely separated locales as pre-War Harvard, Wartime Paris, Miami during the Florida boom, Hollywood, Greenwich Village, Detroit. This trilogy also includes 27 brief biographies of such representative public figures as Steinmetz, Luther Burbank, Henry Ford, Sam Insull, Hearst, Isadora Duncan, Rudolph Valentino, artfully spaced throughout...
...Actual cost figures will probably not be available until large-scale equipment is set up. Developed by Physicist Edwin H. Land, senior partner of an independent Boston laboratory, Polaroid's synthetic organic crystals are bound in a plastic film of cellulose acetate. The tiny crystals are pulled into parallel alignment by stretching the film. The 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...
...directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with a picket fence, some will pass through if they happen to be aligned vertically with the gaps between the palings. Thus all the straws that get through will be parallel to one another...
...laboratory practice, a light beam's "fence" is a crystal, and the gaps which comb light are a crystal's parallel planes of cleavage. Polaroid is a suspension of crystals. The dazzling headlights at last week's demonstration were dimmed because the Polaroid in the lenses and in the windshield was aligned in conflicting directions. The light could thus pass through one but not through both...
...vicinity, yesterday arrived in New York City and began colonizing the vast wastes of the Empire State Building," related the Bawl Street Journal. "By nine o'clock last night all the pioneers had staked out claims on the plateau-like stretches between the fortieth and eightieth parallel. Little watch fires gleamed in hundreds of windows while hungry bond and insurance salesmen prowled below on Fifth Avenue, snarling and pointing menacingly at the clifflike structure...