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...many other new gadgets. Among them: ¶Dictaphone has a light (20-lb.), portable, plug-in model ($350) which records 15 minutes of dictation on envelope-sized plastic belts, so light that five can be mailed in a 3? envelope. ¶SoundScriber's dictating machine ($637.69) has a wafer-thin, Vinylite plastic record which can be erased and used over again by putting it in a machine which heats and whirls it for 29 seconds. ¶Thomas Mechanical Collator Corp., of New York City, has a machine whose metal fingers simultaneously snatch sheets in proper sequence from as many...
...scrappy, well-prepared Springfield team fought its way to a 59 to 58 upset win over the Crimson in the Indoor Athletic Building last night to keep intact the Varsity's record of wafer-thin margin games...
...London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen, where the milk is kept cool and sweet by standing in a bucket of wafer, housewives philosophically turned their curdling ration to pot cheese...
...Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...
...Clouds have general upper and lower limits†: in middle latitudes the highest clouds are six or seven miles above sea level (because air gets no colder above that height); the lowest (except for fogs) are at about 2,000 ft. In thickness, a cloud may vary from a wafer (cirrus) to several miles (cumulonimbus...