Word: tiniest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question. With a chemical allergy to alcohol, the tiniest bit of champagne completely uninhibits prim Kim and turns her into nasty Nadia. She undoes the floral arrangement, curses at the waiter in French, trips the pockets off all the men's jackets ("It's the new style," she exclaims), and convinces the Japanese client's obsequious Geisha Doll of a wife to leave him and claim the 50% of the property she's entitled to by California law. Walter is not pleased...
SORKOW MIGHT counter that he had something more important than the nature of the species' to protect: the welfare of one of the species' tiniest representatives. He argued as much when he called the affair a "routine custody case" that turned on "the best interests of the child...
Ordinary microscopes provide sharp images of most bacteria but cannot distinguish anything smaller than about eight-millionths of an inch -- the tiniest bacteria, for example -- because the wavelength of visible light, which is in the hundred-thousandth of an inch range, is too long. Ruska found that a magnetic coil could focus electrons, which have a wavelength that is roughly 100,000 times shorter. Substituting magnets for lenses and electrons for light, he built his first electron microscope. Improved versions, by providing images of viruses and even large molecules, have revolutionized such disparate fields as biology and electronics...
What they dug up was an impressive collection of "the world's tiniest dinosaurs," but one member of the Canadian Parliament has charged that their handling of the saber-toothed crocodiles, fish and footprints was more than a tiny bit illegal. He claims the scientists--a Columbia University professor and a Harvard graduate student--brought their find back to Cambridge in violation of Canadian legislation...
...Lean Cuisine or Le Menu frozen dinner. Now comes a convenient appliance in which to cook such solitary repasts: the Half Pint microwave oven. Made by Japan's Sharp Electronics, this compact cooker is small enough (13 in. by 13 in.) to fit snugly into the tiniest studio apartment. It will bake a potato in six minutes, only a tad slower than the four minutes that a typical full-size microwave takes...