Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause of all this is not so funny as its effect, however, for when he had a plate for pennies they failed to multiply as the papers disappeared. In fact they often disappeared themselves at a rate which would fill a carpet sweeper with envy...
...repair ship ready to make repairs as best they can. The usefulness of modern repair ships is restricted since they can make only minor or temporary repairs on smaller craft. To correct such major difficulties on a capital ship as a broken propeller or rudder or a loosened plate below the waterline, the ship must be hauled into drydock, which may be thousands of miles away. Last week the Navy Department told how it proposed to overcome this difficulty with a $15,000,000 floating drydock, a strange craft that would not seem out of place among the weird illustrations...
...Dietrich. But no other embodies so perfectly that elusive combination of qualities-variously defined as glamour, personality or, even, color-which added to less subtle requisites makes a beautiful actress a Star. Marlene Dietrich is not so good a tragedienne as Greta Garbo. She is inferior as a fashion plate to Constance Bennett, and less potent at the box office than Shirley Temple. What they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy...
Died. Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, 67, last of Cleveland's realty and railroad-owning Van Sweringen Brothers; of heart disease; while riding to Hoboken, N. J. from Cleveland where he boarded a train of the Nickel Plate road, which the brothers built into the largest privately held U. S. rail system, nearly lost during Depression...
After developing one of his plates Anderson saw that he had scored a hit. To the untrained eye there was nothing but a ragged little white line. But to Anderson that line was astounding. It was thin and sketchy like the path of an electron. The particle had obviously traveled upward along the track and not downward, because it was more strongly bent above the lead plate. Also it had curved to the left. In that magnetic field only a positively charged particle could be traveling upward and curving to the left. In all features the particle was the "anti...