Word: width
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considerable improvement on printing from a typewritten sheet was made possible last week by International Business Machines Corp. I. B. M. has a new electric typewriter which uses 12-point Roman type and whose carriage automatically advances different spacings to allow each letter in the alphabet the width required by good type design. (Each typewriter letter is the same width.) Thus, capital W gets eight units of space, lower-case i or I only two units. The machine uses a 300-ft. paper ribbon, which runs through only once, thus keeping the copy uniform in blackness. There is also...
Explanation; Fm vechicular flow on Main St.; for "peak hour"; Fc=ditto on Cross St.;Lm=left turns from Main St.;Lc= ditto from Cross St.;Pm= pedestrian flow across Main St.; rc = ditto across Cross St -Wm= Width of Mam St.; W. -width of Cross St; Sh -average speed of vehicles going faster than critical approach speed; So critical approach Speed K = derived constant; Wk -standard width of roadway; A = arbitrary values for special conditions; IR = composite intersection rating...
...miles (mean: 235,000 mi.). This condition occurred this week. When the sun is farther away than usual, the shadow cone beyond the moon is longer; and when the moon is closer to earth than usual, the earth intercepts a thicker section of the cone. The maximum possible width of an eclipse path is 167 miles. At its noon point the shadow path of this week's eclipse was 153 miles wide...
...vehicles reported on each street from 7:00 o'clock in the morning to 7:00 o'clock in the evening are being tabulated in a large diagram called a "flow map." Eight feet square, the flow map indicates the volume of traffic on any street by the width of that street on the map. Hence, on a preliminary scale drawing of the map, Massachusetts Avenue was drawn at least five times as wide as Holyoke Street...
...restrain in any way Harvard's music courses is rank calumny upon Hesiod's nine Muses. If the cultural side of education is to be broadened or even its present width maintained, there must be a legitimate shifting of funds to ressurect the "open door" policy for Music...