Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current of about 170 volts and a low amperage and about half an ounce of mercury vapor, he was surprised to find, after about 200 hours of operation, that the mechanism was out of order. He opened the lamp and found that the inside was coated with a thin, black film. Scraping off some of the film, he analysed it and discovered it to be gold. The experiment was repeated several times with identical results? so, at least, Prof. Miethe announced to the world last July. He coupled the announcement with the statement that it would cost about...
...German music is fat and heavy-weight," says Mr. Ernest Newman, distinguished music critic of the London Sunday Times, now visiting New York. Contrasted with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Mr. Newman says those of the French musicians, Bizet, Debussy, and Ravel, are "thin" and "lightweight". Music, then has weight? Modern developments in music prove that Orpheus was an amateur, and that Mozart and Chopin had the merest smattering of musical structure...
...four hours, making possible prolonged operations. In Chicago, a certain dog, rendered unconcious daily for several years with ethylene, has yet shown no ill effects. An instrument was exhibited which has power to make visible the vital essence of man's life in the form of a thin flame shaking upon a thread. The electricity generated by the heart is carried to a silver quartz thread hanging in a magnetic field. As the heart strikes in and out, this faint fire shakes and shakes in the silver cord-patent to man, as it was of old to Atropos...
Professor Einthoven's greatest contribution to science has been the invention of an instrument which enables a photographic record to be made of an electric current as minute as that generated by the heart. He accomplished this by the discovery of the wire galvanometer. This consists of a thin wire, stretched in a magnetic field. By virtue of its ability to measure these feeble electric currents of the heart it has proved a tremendous boon to the study of heart disease. So important is it for this purpose that almost every hospital in the country which takes heart patients...
...many times the judges clipped a blue rosette to a moist cheek-strap, many times a red, but only a few of the thousand that put their hoofs down so neatly into the tanbark ever came to wear one of those rosettes, and those few often. Notable in that thin company were...