Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures so that each eye sees only the image meant for it, Polaroid sheets must be used in the beam splitter and also in glasses worn by the audience. Polaroid is a thin plastic containing myriads of tiny, imbedded, needle-like crystals of iodo-sulfate of quinine, all parallel. When a beam of light strikes the sheet all light waves that are vibrating in the plane of the crystals pass through, all others are stopped. Thus the two beams of light from the projector are filtered so that their waves are at right angles to each other. The observer wears...
...parallel that situation in the Pacific. If our Few had sat down and waited for the tools and help they so desperately needed, who would be in control of our West Coast today...
...Parallel. Three months after the fateful 1918 elections, Woodrow Wilson, having recovered from his first bitterness, gave his considered explanation of the result: "To be perfectly plain, there was not in the minds of the country sufficient evidence that we had supported some of the great things they were interested in any better than the other fellow." The 1942 parallel was striking...
...main landings were at Arzew, on a promontory 25 miles northeast of Oran. On the narrow, easily accessible shore between the hills and the sea, other forces seized Bou Sfer and Cap Signale, west of the city. Then they drove for: 1) Oran's four airdromes, 2) the parallel railway and highway coursing down the coastal plain. By land, on the flanks and in the rear of the historic city, the encirclement was swift and totally effective...
...Office of Technical Development, OPRD aims to: 1) provide Nelson with data on WPB's technical problems; 2) pass on suggestions which come to WPB through outside sources; 3) farm out experimental work; 4) when necessary, construct full-size pilot plants. Working on industrial problems, it will parallel rather than supplant the Office of Scientific Research & Development, which is concerned with research in munitions and war weapons...