Word: width
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Item, lustre: for which there is neither test nor definition. It is the mellow glow emanating from an unblemished "skin," soft, warm, alive. If pearls are held between the eye and the light, some will show a translucent encircling band about one-fifth the width of their diameter. Such have the finer lustre...
...wealthy tenants.. Unwilling to nourish this possibility for distinction by wealth, the College purchased all the "Gold Coast" dormitories and has placed the price of rooms on a level with the other dormitory accommodations. Though located in a part of Cambridge that is less than a mile in width, no part of the "Gold Coast" is nearer than three quarters of a mile to the Somerville line...
Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...
...Peking press a grim description of his initiation: 1) The hour chosen was midnight, at which time the whole assembly of the monastery knelt in its Temple; 2) The crux of the ceremony was to burn deep into the shaved head of Wu Pei-fu nine brands, each the width of a man's thumb, and serving to remind him of his nine vows as a Buddhist priest; 3) The branding was made endurable by covering his scalp (except on the spots to be branded) with pieces of raw turnip, damp and coolingly efficacious...
...device which places the voice on the wire much in the same manner as employed in the telephone. Automatically, machinery raises and lowers the wire as in the case of a sewing machine that loads its own spools; the wire is thus sprayed in perfect alignment over the full width of the wheels upon which it winds and unwinds. When operating, the telegraphone makes practically no sound and only an ordinary speaking voice is required to create a record. The machine will receive dictations for a period ranging from 28 to 35 minutes, depending upon the speed with which...