Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anderson was maintaining a strong magnetic field across the chamber which would curve the paths of flying electric particles. By the direction of curvature he could tell whether they were positively or negatively charged. He had also shrewdly inserted a lead plate in the chamber. A particle which passed through this plate would be weakened by the passage, hence more sharply curved on the far side by the magnetic field. Thus the physicist could tell which way it had traveled along the track...
...land, voters thumpingly disregarded the editorial politics of an estimated 80% of the nation's daily Press (TIME, Nov. 2). In Chicago an election night mob took direct action against the rabidly anti-Roosevelt Tribune by burning a truckload of its "bulldog" edition, egging its building, smashing plate glass at its Dearborn Street branch. In Manhattan even a pro-New Deal publisher, Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, his pockets lined with $25,000 won on his paper's polls & predictions, was moved to editorialize...
However, yesterday morning word was had from the Poles, that they were sorry, but Mr. Kwick, evidently of an impulsive temperament, had made a mistake, and the new asteroid was only a scratch on the photographic plate...
...Cronin, the five best batters in the American League, in succession. Mixed with a sidearm curve and a fast ball, it is still his specialty. The Hubbell screwball, according to batters who have missed it, not only dips sharply but also slows down as it arrives at the plate...
...rooters pointed out that if National League batters who were accustomed to it could not hit the Hubbell screwball, Yankee batsmen who had never encountered it could scarcely hope to do so. Yankee enthusiasts retaliated with the argument that the Polo Grounds, where the grandstands are nearer to the plate than in the Stadium, would suit home run experts like Gehrig, Joe Di Maggio, Bill Dickey. Hired to sign stories for Hearst sport pages, Pitcher Hubbell and First Baseman Gehrig met in the syndicate's office in Manhattan. Said First Baseman Gehrig: "This fellow Hubbell . . . isn't much...