Word: width
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...
...distinguishing Austin feature. A tall owner (6 ft. 3 in. or more) lying under the car to tinker with its vitals would extend from wheel to wheel; a large horse (over 1,130 Ib.) would have a weight advantage in a collision. The full car length is 10 ft., width 4 ft. 4 in. Slipping easily through traffic, turning on a 16-ft. radius, parked wherever ten feet of parking space are available, the Austin offers obvious advantages with respect to handling in heavy traffic. Its sponsors also maintain that it will go 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline...
...windward will be blind. That of veteran policeman Mulrooney can hardly be expected to measure from afar the width of London's latest white trousers. So it is with a true feeling of sadness that each cadet sings official police words...
Similarly with the ether highways of the radio world: the wave-bands assigned to different stations must be spaced across the radio spectrum to avoid overlapping, garbling of messages. Reducing the "width" of the wave-bands would make "more room...
...however, we are prepared to make completely both silent and talking films in our own plant here at the University. We have installed a well-equipped laboratory for developing and printing the films, both standard-width and 16-millimeter size. Also we have installed a sound-proof studio-acoustically prepared for the making of talking films. Furthermore, we have provided rooms, and offices for the staff. This has been made possible by a gift for this purpose from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who has been interested in assisting the Foundation in its educational work...