Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transit itself was not spectacular, for planets are insignificant on the solar scale. Mercury looked like a grain of bird shot creeping across a pie. What interested the astronomers was the timing of Mercury's appearance. It never keeps appointments exactly, and they have learned a great deal by figuring out what makes it early or late for a date...
Strong, Sensitive Scale. The most accurate chemist's scales, those that use quartz fibers as springs, can weigh only tiny quantities. Scales big enough to handle good-sized samples are not nearly as sensitive. Last week Dr. Alsoph H. Corwin of Johns Hopkins University told about a scale that he has developed which is both strong and sensitive. Its beam teeters on a finely polished knife edge of boron carbide (almost as hard as diamond), resting on the same material. The edge is so sharp that the pressure on its minute bearing surface...
...color TV race last week. It has been licensed to manufacture the "Chromatron" color tube invented by Nobel Prizewinner Ernest O. Lawrence and developed by Paramount Pictures Corp.'s TV labs. Crosley said it already has a pilot line turning out the new tube on a limited scale, and promised a wide range of advantages for its new product: large, rectangular pictures, excellent color definition and easy mass production...
...Deathbed Succession. What Mary faced was a state of "open war." Who, exactly, led and organized "the policy of persecution" with which Mary retaliated. "we do not know," writes Author Prescott. But the burning of heretics, "a principle taken for granted" in Tudor England, now began on a scale never known before or since. "Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump...
...Balanced Scale. In Cape Town, South Africa, playing hooky from school, 13-year-old Peter Schroder rescued a marooned kitten from a 60-ft. pine tree, got 1) a $1.50 reward from the grateful owner, 2) a medal from the Animal Welfare Society, 3) a sound thrashing from his headmaster, who said: "Peter is a hero, but if he plays truant, he must also take his medicine...