Word: pointers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite its brevity, the life line of the lightning flash has been accurately measured by the cathode ray oscillograph. This is an instrument developed by the General Electric Company at Schenectady and makes use of a beam of electrons which, acting as a pointer, measures- the rise & fall, or wave shape of the voltages. When a wave of lightning encounters an obstruction it builds up to twice its power, just as a wave of water breaking on a wall will splash about twice its height. Therefore a direct voltage of 3,000,000 traveling along a line will suddenly jump...
Later His Majesty attempted to entice Her Majesty onto a bathroom scale. "No thank you," said she firmly, but waited indulgently while he stood upon the plate and exclaimed "Right!" as the pointer touched...
There will be one limitation only. The lecturer will have no pointer long enough to reach the outermost stars at the top of the planetarium. He will use a beam of light instead...
...Detroit a school teacher put by her pointer and her students' papers. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh dressed herself warmly and was swept southward by the propeller windstorm of a sturdy trimotored Ford monoplane. One night she spent in St. Louis. The next day as her famed offspring in Mexico City was piloting on his first flight President Plutarco Elias Calles, the monoplane sprang to Tulsa, Okla. The third sunset found her in Brownsville, Texas. Next day up from the crowded field at Mexico City rose Col. Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis. Swallowed in the clouds he missed...
...line average 192, behind the line 180. This gargantuan group galloped gravely through Army 10-6, despite the sinewy protests of the most seasoned backfield outside of professional football, Captain Harry Wilson (Penn State) Cagle (Louisiana), Murrell (Minnesota). Just in time did Charles D. Curran, an editor of The Pointer, West Point journal, apologize through the Yale Daily News for an inadvertent, faintly insulting bit of optimism in The Pointer. "Yale will furnish little opposition after the first half...