Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with rapid movements." For his scientific cello he mounted a conventional fingerboard and electrified bridge on a heavy wooden frame and stood the whole thing on a metal peg leg. Instead of tones, Dr. Benioff's cello produces electrical impulses which are transmitted to loudspeakers. It has a wider range than a standard cello, but not the deep brown tone...
...direction of Howard H. Aiken, associate professor of Applied Mathematics, and one of the inventors who worked on it originally. Aiken, and other members of the calculator staff, served with the Navy during the war, when the work of the machine was entirely devoted to the war effort. Wider civilian use is expected in the future in several branches of physics and astronomy. With the facilities of the new building, the instruction of graduate students in the theory and use of the machine will be increased...
...uncle. By putting his charges at ease before each broadcast, he gets some delightful reactions: quick indignation for obviously stupid questions, squealing giggles to unexpected answers, busy babbling when two or more youngsters try to talk at the same time, as they frequently do. Hoping to catch an even wider audience than the encyclopedia Quiz Kids, Juvenile Jury strictly limits its questions to fields interesting to almost all children...
...reprinting excerpts from Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s parody of the language chemists and engineers use, some of you have suggested that our Science Editor was hoodwinked into thinking he was making scientific sense. Not so. He was merely giving wider circulation to the engineering firm's kidding the mumbo -jumbo language in which too many scientific treatises are written. He was also, by implication, making a plea for a simpler, clearer use of the King's or any other English...
Besides that, I think flying is the best way of seeing the country," he adds, "and if we can create a wider interest in private planes, there will be lower prices followed by still wider interest...