Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become the disappointment of the finale. The Scoreboard read Carnegie Tech 7, Texas Christian 6- because little Davey had failed to kick the extra point. But in the second half, Quarterback O'Brien resumed his role of hero, led his team to another touchdown and kicked a last-quarter field goal that not only gave Texas Christian the game, 15-to-7, but stamped it as one of the greatest football teams of the decade...
Pure science gave way to practical technology when one of Dr. Langmuir's coworkers, Dr. Katharine Burr Blodgett, found that a layer of transparent liquid soap, with a thickness of one-quarter the average wavelength of white light (about 4/1,000,000 in.), made the glass to all intents and purposes invisible. Reason: glass is visible because of the light reflected from its surface; with a soap film there are two reflections, one from the glass and one from the soap; by spacing the two surfaces properly it is possible to get the "crest" of a light wave bouncing...
...future after almost 22 years in prison: "My long-range work after I get out of prison will be to seek unity for the labor movement-a progressive unity that looks to the future instead of the past. ... I am sure that by living cautiously I can live another quarter century. I have no doubts about my ability to withstand the mental strain of release. My heart and mind have never been confined to prison walls...
Conceivably, nothing could have been worse. Fortunately, the Fair architects had taste in using their natural site. By laying out their timber and plaster buildings as a windowless "walled city," completely enclosing an L-shaped set of avenues and courts, they made a sheer 80-foot bulwark a quarter-of-a-mile long against the trade wind that blows off the Pacific. To keep the wind out at the west entrances, blue-eyed, sandy-haired Architect Ernest Weihe, fussing around with an electric fan, feathers and a cardboard model, devised "wind baffles"-a series of 80-foot vertical slabs placed...
...bonds, mining royalties, real estate were accepted at their value as of November 30 because Nazis feared the effects if Jews dumped their holdings on the market. Some Jews were temporarily released from concentration camps so they could pay up, but it was rumored the payment of the first quarter of the $400,000,000 fine was inadequate and the assessment on the Jews would be increased from 20% to 25% of their assets...