Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which electricians were able to exercise through changing the potentials on the positive and negative terminals of the original tubes, was rendered extremely sensitive and intricate with the addition, by Dr. Lee De Forest, of an independently charged grid of wire between the heated filament and the positively charged plate...
...week's blackface Otello, veteran Giovanni Martinelli, could have won his audience without the smash-clapping and howling of the inevitable claque. Elisabeth Rethberg (Desdemona) substituted massively for Eide Norena, who was ill. Long-legged, snub-nosed Lawrence Tibbett (lago) acted so enthusiastically he almost made a home-plate slide in the second...
Capacity attendance of nearly 2,000 was expected for the N. A. M. banquet which, at $8 per plate, will wind up the three-day Congress in the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria's Grand Ballroom. It will represent the greatest aggregation of white-tied wealth and power ever assembled under one roof. Scheduled to decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay...
...when you've gotten to home plate, you'll find thousands of others who have gotten just as far. If you sell 3,000 copies of your first book, you're doing well. My first manuscript was turned down by eight publishers, quite justly too, and didn't sell half that amount. There is no set formula for success...
...obtained the same result by a different method. He used much more high-powered electrons, around 50,000 volts. These were able to penetrate the crystalline structure of a film of metal one-millionth of an inch thick. After emerging they were still strong enough to impress a photographic plate, and Thomson obtained the first pictures of diffraction rings created by electrons...