Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a battalion of more than 250 masons, carpenters, plumbers, day laborers, and superintendents working at top speed, the construction of the new chemistry laboratory on Oxford Street has attained its maximum pace. The builders' contract names May 1 as the completion date for the two buildings which will compose the projected chemistry group, and according to present indications this date will see the outside of the buildings, at least, actually completed. The interiors will be finished up and the equipment for this new chemical plant installed during the summer. The Chemistry Department is planning to move into...
Many such cavities or bubbles formed, explained Sir Oliver. How some acquired characteristics opposite to others, he could not say, but inferred that there were opposites, the positive and negative particles of that form of energy called electricity. Their high speed made mutual penetration difficult. Instead of destroying one another they agglomerated in clusters (atoms, molecules) masses (star dust, worlds, material universes...
...Baird's "optical lever," a series of whirling lenses mounted on discs, which break up an optical image into minute constituent parts. They were even more impressed by the Baird photo-electric cell, of the colloidal selenium type, which could capture and transmit the minute image parts at unprecedented speed. Last week, between sessions of the British Association, members sought out Inventor Baird in Leeds to see him manipulate his latest tele-visors, which are now so refined that they can "see things at night." Using infra-red rays, on the long-wave edge of the spectrum of visible light...
...speed trucks...
...discriminate between ripe and unripe bolls. On the new machine, two arms reach out and gather in the spreading branches of the cotton bushes. Two vertical, revolving cylinders spined with close-set spindles, brush along the branches gently. The cylinders slide backwards horizontally on their bases at the same speed as the whole machine is moving forward. This saves the branches from being torn off the bushes. By the time the cylinders reach the end of the backward slide, their spindles have finished the task of combing all loose fibres off the branches and out of opened bolls. The branches...