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...reason for this X-ray tube's phenomenal performance: it uses a "magnetic lens," similar to that in the electron microscope (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942), to focus the electron beam in the tube on a bull's-eye only .01 inch in diameter, instead of the usual quarter-inch focal spot. Thus the X rays emerge in a sharp beam and produce well-defined shadows even after passage through thick steel...
...even simpler mask is advocated by Dr. Kearney Sauer of the Los Angeles Citizens' Defense Corps: two twelve-inch squares of bed sheeting with a quarter-inch layer of baking soda between, held in even distribution by crisscross stitching. Dampened and held firmly over the face, this napkin will give temporary protection against any gas, according to Dr. Sauer-but not the Army...
...shades of belief. The only complaint is that he is too meticulous. Last year he built a big rowboat in his basement, listened patiently to the ribbing of acquaintances who were sure he could never get it out the door; when he finished, it cleared the door by a quarter-inch...
...children have been named, now has a small sea animal namesake: an amphipod crustacean, related to the shrimp, lobster and crab, which inhabits Magdalena Bay on the coast of Lower California, and which was discovered there by a Smithsonian scientist in 1938. The name is much longer than the quarter-inch crustacean itself: Neomeganphopus roosevelti...
...small for snapping piano wire. He investigated, found a young man wiggling out from a half-opened panel. The bookkeeper, who in all his years around pianofortes had never seen one with a man in it, called the police. They found the young man had 25 feet of quarter-inch rope wound around his leg, carried vitamin tablets in his pockets. He was Hans Strehl...