Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Dec. 17 account of the proposal of the name shake for a unit of time equal to one-hundredth microsecond was interesting, but tended to leave the impression that such minute intervals are a very recent phenomenon in physics . . . During the war, in order to avoid using the somewhat revealing word "microsecond" in telephone conversations, it was dubbed the "dollar" in one section of the Manhattan project, so that what is now a shake became a "penny." The "jiffy" has been used for one ten-thousandth of a shake and probably for other short intervals...
...understood, however, that the Air Reserve Officers Training Corps, which currently shares its quarters with the Army R.O.T.C. unit in Shannon Hall, has an option on Claverly Senior House...
...vocal technique, his facility in moving among the highest notes," but, added Rome's Il Tempo, "beside [Soprano Callas] he appeared more her page than her promised." L'ltalia found his high notes "bell-like and sure," but his movements "uncertain and indefinite." The Communist L'Unità snarled at his "atrocious pronunciation, insupportable to the Italian ear." But even L'Unità admitted that U.S. Tenor Conley has a voice. His high notes, it said, were "impeccable...
...oxygen saturation of the pilot's blood drops below its normal 98%, it will turn a darker, heavier red. Less light will filter through his ear lobe and less current will be given off by the photoelectric cell. A red warning light, connected to the ear unit, will flash in time for the pilot to repair his oxygen supply or get his plane down to a safe altitude...
...Army R.O.T.C. unit was substantially enlarged last year after the Korean fighting started...