Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playfair's book was written in June was set up in type and will be published next Fall by Houghton Miflin in a series of books for boys with Harvard as a background. He was unwilling to stretch the coincidence too far yesterday but said that gold and jade were stolen in his story also...
...pick-up pressure on the record is only 0.176 ounces while that of the ordinary pick-up is from one to three ounces. It is an inductor dynamic type with a permanent sapphire needle on a single-loop, U-shaped inductor in a strong magnetic field...
Whereas the old heavy type of pick-up had to be moved with care so as not to run radially over the surface of the record, the new one can be slid across the surface without leaving the faintest trace of its path...
...neutrons of no charge and little mass. This is kept together by a strong force which prevents them flying apart, known as geography. This nucleus is not symmetrical as, included on its western edge, is a particularly powerful proton (Britain) that has 'wave characteristics' of a definite type peculiar to itself. In the south there is what might be called a neutrino (Italy). This has, some think, also wave mechanic aspirations. It is peculiar in this respect that its core is eternal (Rome) but its surround, some think, is ephemeral...
...winter lecture season got under way, one plain fact was apparent from the topics chosen for speeches, the fees paid lecturers, the types of writers who proved popular. It was that the taste of U. S. audiences had been rapidly changing. A few years ago sex and psychology were major lecture subjects, with travel adventure of the type popularized by Richard Halliburton running them a close third. This year's audiences will hear little sex but much politics, fewer accounts of adventures in Africa but many discussions on how to make friends, how to influence people, how to conquer...