Word: perpendicularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time went on, Meryon saw stranger things. His later cityscapes were ruined, collectors thought, by the introduction of monstrous birds and whales wallowing overhead. After he had printed etchings of two perpendicular boxes in which a man and a woman were padlocked to sleep standing up, and made a written attack on ordinary beds ("A piece of furniture that serves the purpose of laziness and lust"), Meryon was hustled off to a madhouse. There, at 46, he died...
Victor's reduction in the size of the record is to reduce what is called "tracking error." Tracking error is distortion introduced when the needle is not aligned with the groove. A curved pickup arm on a twelve-inch record can be perpendicular to the grooves at only a few spots. By reducing the number of grooves, Victor has virtually eliminated tracking error. But the total distortion normally created by tracking error is less than the distortion of most amplifiers, so that tracking error is not heard except on the very fine machines. The fault Victor is correcting...
...conversion (kicking the oval through the goal posts from a point perpendicular to the place where the try was made) gets two more points. A try followed by a conversion is a goal. Thus, Harvard made four tries and a goal...
...made it clear that some theoretical study had been completed on perpendicular biasts before Army engineers atomized their 200 ft. electrical tower in August. But since nothing of sufficient magnitude could be artificially created, it was impossible to secure ideal control and observational conditions...
...Nobody Knows . . ." The Friend observatory is as practical as any backyard astronomer could wish. The supporting base is a perpendicular concrete column, 16 feet long, anchored in bedrock eight feet below the surface on the highest hill of the orange grove. To this block is bolted the large telescope - a 16-in. reflector in a 12-ft. galvanized iron tube. On the lower side are ascension and declination meters and counterbalance weights. The observatory is roofless. A square wooden platform provides working space. The lenses were ground in a small Escondido garage-workshop...