Word: thousandths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tenth the light from all the stars and weigh (Millikan calculation) 10 -34 gram per cubic centimeter.* Mount Wilson's Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble estimates the total amount of matter in space as 10 -31 gram per cubic centimeter. Cosmic radiation thus must be equal to about one-thousandth of all matter, making it "extremely probable that the whole of existing matter is involved in this phenomenon of cosmic rays...
...heart's right auricle. Here originates the stimulus which excites the normal heart to beat about 70 times a minute. Dr. Hyman's investigations told him that the stimulus is an electric current generated by the pacemaker. Ingeniously he measured that current, found it about one-thousandth of one volt...
Sitting at the very desk where he measured the fatal Sacco-Vanzetti bullets, with instruments accurate up to one ten-thousandth of an inch, Dr. Magrath affirmed the statement that no innocent person in his opinion, has ever been executed in Massachusetts for a crime he did not commit. The notorious "Bullet Number 3", responsible for the death of Parmenter, in the Sacco-Vanzetti case, was found to be grooved from a pit in the gun barrel, probably caused by rust. Such a pit was found in the gun of Sacco, and test slugs fired from it by investigators, here...
...imperceptible cushion of air held between a thumb and forefinger when their tips rub gently against each other is thicker than the film of glass with which Westinghouse Lamp Co. is sealing certain of its vacuum tubes. That glass is one five-thousandth of an inch thick. Last week Dr. Charles Morse Slack, the company's research physicist, received its annual $500 award for accomplishing the thin sealing...
...Leet, seismologist in charge. It started early in the morning and continued through the night. These rythmatic earth-vibrations have puzzled seismologists for many years. In the last storm the earth's crust in this vicinity was agitated by ripples causing vibrations as great as one thousandth of an inch, or five times as great as those recorded in a similar storm last December...