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...Jena, to make Zeiss prism binoculars in the U. S., trading Bausch manufacturing for Zeiss research facilities. The deal held good until the War, when Bausch perforce perfected the U. S. manufacture of fine optical glass, made 3,500 binoculars a week (besides periscopes, range finders, gun sight telescopes, searchlight mirrors). War demands mechanized the manufacture of microscopes. Prices fell from over $1,000 for hand-worked ones to $100 and $200 for machine-made ones...
...being operated on. The next morning she will hand over to the surgeon for his hospital files accurately colored drawings of infected areas that could not easily be photographed, before and after the operation, with additional diagrams showing various steps in the operation, stitching, drainage. Last week the searchlight of the Manhattan art world turned briefly on the young woman who has been making hundreds of these medical drawings for the past three years: Muriel Robinson...
...that was too small for him. At Monte Carlo he usually bets on red because he has a "preference for the optimistic side of things." Among many vigorous yarns about the War, funniest (unintentionally) is "My Spy Story," in which he tells how he discovered and demolished a searchlight on the tower of a Scottish castle, considerably upsetting an innocent dinner party to do it. ". . . But the most extraordinary part in my opinion is yet to come. There was nothing in it at all." Post-War conditions have bruised his optimism, but it is still unbowed. He can still look...
Characteristic sequence in this vulgar, undistinguished, gratuitously profane presentation: Actor Kelly ingeniously seducing a woman whose flagpole-sitting lover has a searchlight trained...
...magnetostriction rods, usually an alloy of nickel and steel, used, experimentally, as a source of air waves, similar to sound waves, but above audible limit, especially in the range: 30,000 to 50,000 cycles. Such waves can be focused, confined to narrow beams like those from a searchlight. Both the quartz crystal and magnetostriction rod are being worked on for communication purposes, and are also used to study the elastic properties of materials...