Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infra-red rays pierce some clouds ; so Dr. Walter Baade of Mt. Wilson, Calif, photographed the proper part of the sky with infra-red light. His plate showed a dim, ghostly shape (see cut). Drs. Stebbins and Whitford, encouraged, used infra-red light of still longer wave length. They attached a photoelectric cell and an infra-red filter to the Mt. Wilson 60-inch telescope and swept it back & forth across the area where the nucleus ought to be. Their calculations showed a strong elliptical bulge. The happy astronomers did not claim that this was the Milky...
When the paper signing was over last week, Argentina owned the United River Plate Telephone Co., Ltd., I.T. & T.'s largest operating subsidiary. And Behn had been paid his price of $95 million in U.S. money (I.T. & T.'s original investment: some $85 million). I.T. & T. also got a ten-year contract to furnish technical advisors, and exclusive rights to supply its former subsidiary with equipment...
...waiters, up to $5 to busboys, with an extra $1 each for winning smiles). Reputed to be a soft touch for any & all hard-luck stories, he favors midnight blue shirts with white silk ties, drives a black Lincoln limousine equipped with siren, white bearskin rug, New York license plate (MH 1) and bulletproof glass (gift of a former gangster acquaintance). Hollywood also reveres Hellinger for his seemingly inexhaustible stock of excellent liquor, his fondness for intricate practical jokes and his small superstitions...
...first test rangy, graceful Jackie Robinson had to pass was a session at the plate in spring training. On the mound were some fastball pitchers, some of them Southerners. There was a feeling that one of them might try "spinning his cap" (pitching at his head). They didn't, but Jackie Robinson was blazing the way for other Negro ballplayers and he Was jittery...
Kirkland built up a two-run lead in the early innings as the Gold Coasters had trouble touching Hubbell's slow curves and spot pitching, but Adams dented the plate once in the fourth on John Kline's single, and Charlie Farmer put them ahead in the fifth with another single to score two more runs. The score: Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 r h 0 Kirkland 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 1 Adams...