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...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...
...Army used what it called "Sferic" - Static Direction Finder - a device developed in Florida and combat-tested in the storm-ridden Pacific theater. Sferic employs a radar-like directional antenna (two mutually perpendicular receiving loops) and cathode-ray tube. Certain types of storms are accompanied by severe electrical disturbances, familiar to every radio listener as the crashing static that accompanies a thunderstorm...
...Instead of being laid in the usual way, the bricks are laid one above the other in parallel perpendicular rows...
Dinner with the Marshal. As I write this dispatch, sitting on the grass with my typewriter on my knees, I can gaze at the deep perpendicular cleft cut in the huge rock where I had dinner with Marshal Tito last night...