Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable new foreign-body detector which Dr. Moorhead had with him. It was invented by Samuel Berman, a research engineer in the New York City Transit Department. The cigar-sized instrument works on the principle of a radio tube; when held over a wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time in X-raying and probing...
...encyclopedia, slang comes under the letter S, and it is there that Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) and his seven unwed colleagues get stuck. Potts takes pencil and notebook and sets out to get unstumped. He is lucky; he meets Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck...
...business: no more pencil erasers, typewriter erasers, rubber bands (the U.S. uses some 30,000,000,000 bands a year). Stockings and underpants will draggle down minus garters, stocking tops, elastic waist bands. Feet will get wet: fewer galoshes, boots, rubbers. Relaxation will be harder: no more foamed rubber latex auto cushions, Pullman cushions, home and hospital mattresses. Hair will be stringier on next year's beaches: no more bathing caps (last year: 11,500,000); and no more rubber bathing suits...
Commonest form of welding used today is arc welding. An arc welder has for his tool a device that holds a pencil-sized metal rod carrying a heavy (around 200 amps) electric current of low voltage. When he brings the rod close to the metal to be welded, the current leaps across the near-contact, forming a blinding arc whose temperature-some 6,500° F.-melts both the rod and the metal being welded into tiny molten pools which quickly cool into solid metal. Since the welder's rod (called an electrode) melts down like a candle...
...Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...