Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vesting in James Watt, Engineer . . . the sole Use and Property of certain Steam Engines ... of his Invention...
Even the Nicaraguan peons knew that something was stirring. The tipoff: a drastic drop in planting during the current rainy season. Small farmers, sure that in the event of war troops would burn their fields, had planted just enough for their own use...
...average of over 100 cosmic particles of some sort pass through every human head every minute, according to Millikan, but they cannot be felt. Elaborate special apparatus is needed to observe them. Some scientists work with stacks of Geiger tubes, which register each particle that passes through them. Others use special photographic plates, where certain particles leave microscopic tracks of silver in the sensitive emulsion. The best instrument, and the hardest to use, is the Wilson cloud chamber, where the particles make visible tracks of white condensed moisture...
...amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl, the outline of a room, for later use, and was convinced that a U.S. convention provided too much circus and too little bread...
...atomic-energy by-product (radioactive sodium) is being used to study blood circulation. Drs. Myron Prinzmetal and Eliot Corday of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital inject the sodium into a patient's veins, place a Geiger counter over the heart, record the appearance of the tagged blood on a special machine. Their method, they reported, spots enlarged hearts sooner than any other now in use...