Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed a brilliant arc between two electrodes of a welding torch in an atmosphere of hydrogen. This was magnified and projected in color on a frosted glass screen. The engineers saw the images of the electrodes three inches apart, with the broad, vivid flow of the arc two inches wide. Then Dr. Suits produced an arc in an atmosphere of nitrogen. The arc band was pale, thin. But when he stepped up the nitrogen pressure to 1,200 Ib. per sq. in., the arc thickened and brightened until it was indistinguishable from that produced in hydrogen...
...they had raised the expenses of this year's show by contributions and public sale of $1 carnival buttons. Citizens had saved their Christmas trees, donated them for street decorations. The WPA had furnished men to build a five-story ice palace, 191 ft. long, 70 ft. wide, 60 ft. high. Business and civic groups selected beauteous stenographers, secretaries, sales girls as their "queens.'' Rudy Vallée, playing a week's orchestra engagement at St. Paul, was on hand to select from among them a consort for Carnival King Frank Madden, columnist...
...provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often was he interrupted by catcalls, loud expressions of dissent and ironic cries of "Vive la Banque!" Wide open was the governor to shareholders' jokes, for his report, written a while before, was crammed with cheer, confidence and numerous vows to defend the franc and the low rediscount rate. At the moment the franc was sinking, the Bank of France had just hiked the rediscount rate from...
...plot can boast the originality of having the heroine marry the right man, and wish that she had married the wrong, but most of the time it struggles along with some time-unhonored devices that can't help shooting wide of their marks. The ending is particularly unfortunate. The heroine rushes on to the scene of the duel between her newly-valued husband and her worthless duke of a lover, manages to be the only one hit, and is reconciled with her worthy spouse, in the arms of him and the face of death. There follows an imaginative scene whose...
Letters were sent by the directors to art dealers in the hope that the thief would try to dispose of the pictures. The statuette of a deer, stolen last Spring, has never been recovered, despite a nation-wide search...