Word: platee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Specifically, Russia did not like the fact that the U. S. Coast Guard cutter Bear had taken magnetic observations in her territorial waters. It was also brought to his attention that upon a rock on Chukotsk Peninsula, in Emma Bay, Cape Pusino, Bering Strait, had been found a brass plate with the inscription "United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Station. For information write Superintendent, Washington. For disturbing this mark, $250 fine or imprisonment...
...problem is to study the total brightness of the corona. For this purpose we have four photometer, cameras, consisting of a box with a plate at one end and a pinhole at the other...
...Comic Literature" in German, which was printed a century and a half ago. These volumes are interesting because they belonged to Robert Southey, whose signature is on the title page of the first volume, and later to Harry Buxton Forman, the editor of Shelley's writings, whose book-plate they contain. Between these two periods, they were in Coleridge's library...
...from all limitations of jury. The kult room was the heart of the exhibition. A sign, "Keep off the Tapestry," warned spectators off the Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip of celluloid, all against a background of awning stripes. A little red balloon hung in front. A rug-covered box served as divan. Two cups and saucers lay on a stool-a home-like touch...
...while those of the Ford Co. were given 5,101,639. Steel's working capital was $451,192,447; Ford's was $257,295,916. The Steel Corporation has 147 steel works, 123 blast furnaces, 331 open hearth and electric furnaces, and 157 sheet jobbing and plate mills; the Ford plants are 34 in number, and are located all over the world...