Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They are created when a powerful electric current-i.e., a stream of electrons -jumps through a vacuum tube and hits a "target,", usually a piece of tungsten. The electrons batter from the tungsten a secondary stream of chargeless particles, X-rays, whose wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of ultraviolet light and almost as short as those of radium's gamma rays. The shorter waves are the farther they penetrate into matter before their energy is dispersed. The stronger the voltage the shorter the resulting X-ray wave length and the greater the penetration. Thick...
...enormous boost to the morale of all the world. Or he could move as he has been moving, step by step, whittling the act's barriers away one by one. The first choice would involve great risks. Even defeat was possible. The second choice would mean a shorter step, with victory almost certain...
...years, as Boston's "People's Lawyer," Brandeis fought against this "tyranny of bigness." From 1907 to 1913 he opposed the New Haven monopoly of New England transportation; he perfected the plan for inexpensive unemployment and old-age insurance for workers. He struggled for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions for laborers everywhere. In all this, he led the parade that has brought the economic and social emphasis into legal thought. On the Supreme Court bench, he similarly geared his analysis to economic change, and his directives to social action...
...this sorry record, the Treasury's corny sales promotion was in part to blame. But now the corn is being weeded out. Dull posters and literature will be pepped up or ditched. The radio campaign (most successful Treasury promotion so far) is using better talent, shorter commercials. By Sept. 15 the Michigan plan will be working in every State. If it works as well nationally as in Michigan, Washington talk of compulsory savings will prove at least premature...
Last week tempers in Lima and Quito were shorter than usual. Each capital suspected that the other was trying to buy U.S. support with concessions. Other American capitals suspected, with more reason, that Axis and pro-Axis provocateurs had planted and watered the first suspicion. The Spanish Ambassador to Peru, Pablo de Churruca, Marqués de Aycinena, who once studied the problem for Arbiter Alfonso XIII, was shrewdly suspected of having put pressure on Peru to hold out for a lion's share of the territory...