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...weather. From a C-entry room the radio blared forth the progress of the Boston city series, and a horn-rimmed passer-by, recently emerged from the Grolier Book Shop, remarked in disgust, "don't tell me that nonsense is starting again!" Vag smiled contentedly, reflecting for perhaps the thousandth time that Cambridge was one of the few places in America where such sentiments were commonplace...
...vacuum a carefully compensated tuning fork that is kept vibrating electrically. An amplifying circuit picks up the vibrations, feeds them to the loudspeaker. The result: a loud, true A. It is not a very musical sound, for it lacks softening overtones, but it is accurate to one one-hundred-thousandth of a cycle...
...home" or Milky Way galaxy is not in its stars at all but in tiny solid grains or separate atoms. This is what stars are formed from. According to Dr. H. C. van de Hulst from Utrecht, The Netherlands, the average cosmic particle is about one hundred thousandth of a centimeter in radius and deadly cold, only a few degrees above absolute zero ( -459.72°F.). When wandering atoms strike such particles, they freeze and stick tight...
...radioactive equivalent of one one-thousandth of a gram of radium...
Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike...