Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented with a large parchment scroll in a beautifully ornamented wooden box." The interviewer then had the pleasure of seeing the scroll and its box and several other articles which had been presented to Professor and Mrs. Kennelly on their departure. Among these were two bamboo slide-rules with 19 scales on each of them, made with the finest precision...
...last snow flies in New England. Hulking pungs slide off quietly into the slashing behind the pump horse. The new town truck drones along the highway casting up furrows of white foam. With a sharp jar as the sled strikes ground, a cheerful gnome starts off belly flopper down the hill to school. A tall pine stands out in the pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over...
...head on a centrifuge axis. Into one end of the bar is built a microscope-objective (the lower lens, system of a microscope). Above this objective is an aperture in the bar, and directly over the aperture is a light. The light illuminates a cell placed on a slide in the aperture. By an arrangement of prisms placed periscope-wise in the bar, the image of the cell is carried through the microscope-objective, to one prism, then to the other, then through the upper lens of the microscope to the eyepiece, which is directly above the axis...
Frankie was in two minds what to do about the warning. He was offered a better job with his boss's rival, but he was afraid of his boss. Finally he just let everything slide while he had a good time with Rosie. But on the next trip the truck was held up, his partner was shot. Frankie figured out that by the time he got back to Boston the gunmen would be after him as the only witness of the shooting, so he lay low for a few days. When he went back to Boston to see Rosie...
...Marine Band played "A Bicycle Built for Two." There was quiet, reminiscent talk but no songs, no cheers, no collegiate informality. Despite their friendship for the President, no member of the team could screw his courage up to calling him "Bert." Coffee and cigars were followed by a lantern slide show of undergraduate days. When the reunion broke up before midnight. President Hoover said to his guests: "Come back tomorrow morning for medicine ball." Some of them did, and the next night, without the President, they ate another reunion dinner. A tour of the Gettysburg battlefield completed Stanford...