Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerable part of the laboratory will be devoted to the study of the effect of stress on variously shaped solid bodies with the aid of polarized light and sensitive cameras. The distribution of stress and strain exerted on a notched object, for example, can be detected by bands of colored light which are recorded on the photographic plate in the camera. The English scientist, Coker, developed the process early in the last decade, but its practical engineering value is just beginning to be realized...
...flag's blue field was not shown; there was no other color in the picture. But the force of the cartoon was immeasurably increased by its red blotches. A patriotic eye could even imagine that the U. S. stripes were less Red than the solid emblem of Communism...
...heart; in New York. Year in, year out, he dug through newspaper files for stories of strange events contrary to scientific theory, put them in books (Lo!, The Book of the Damned, Wild Talents), invented supernatural theses to explain them. His "law of teleportation" explained the movement of solid objects (mud, frogs, periwinkles) through the air in magnetic paths...
When the civilian parade began more than a million Russians marched across the Red Square in a solid, seemingly endless phalanx more than 100 ft. wide. At sight of Dictator Stalin, who wore a Red Army cap and bluish grey "semimilitary jacket" (said Moscow papers), each new group of workers burst into "spontaneous cheers." Just at dusk the parade's tail was brought up by a Soviet dirigible which had flown during the day from Leningrad to Moscow...
...familiar with still-lifes by R. Dirks, latest of which is to be found at the 10th Anniversary Exhibition of the Salons of America in Manhattan. Sleeves rolled up showing the tattooed insignia of the 5th Artillery - his chief souvenir of a year in the Spanish-American War - stocky, solid, cheerful Artist Dirks is usually to be found working in his studio...