Word: slit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Patou-High waistlines, skirts five inches below the knee for sports, just clearing the floor at night. The "Egyptian silhouet," evening gowns with a draped front, skirt slit to the calf. Peaked cloth caps for winter sports with fur ear-laps á la Kennebunk Port. Featured colors: dark yellow, green, astrakhan beige...
...enraged Liberals burned Republican homes, wrecked Republican stores. Parahyba's police were all inland, fighting Independent José Pereira; 1,000 Federal troops finally were called out to do police duty. In Parahyba gaol 187 convicts banged on the jail doors, begged that they might be released to slit the throats of the murderers of State President Pessoa...
Battalino v. Fernandez. In his home town, Hartford, Conn., where he can draw bigger gates than anywhere else, Christopher ("Battling") Battalino, feather weight champion of the world, windmilled rapid, clumsy punches at the jaw, stomach and heart of slit-eyed Ignacio Fernandez, a Filipino who once knocked out Al Singer (see above). In the second round Battalino hit Fernandez in the ribs, doubled him up, then knocked him over with aggressing right. Like a fighter who has not trained and cannot, stand the slightest body punch, Fernandez went down five times more in that round, but stayed conscious till...
...Pierce has been engaged in making some precision clocks for laboratory and observatory use. One of the clocks employs a pendulum enclosed in a vacuum chamber and kept at constant temperature. The pendulum has no escapement, driving spring or other mechanical attachment. Instead it is provided with a small slit through which a beam of light passes at each swing of the pendulum. The beam of light falls on a photoelectric cell and produces an electric current of short duration each second. These current pulses drive an auxiliary second's counter and clock dial for registering the time and also...
Since the perfection of the early form of talking pictures (sound-on-record), many companies have been experimenting with the photography of sound on the film itself. A new sound-on-film process worked out by Inventor Theodore Nakken, president of Nakken Corp., discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last...