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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paths are slim for electrons going at high speed, broader for slower moving ones. This is a phenomenon noted in Professor Floyd Karker Richtmyer's physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Engraving | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Since the Hoover-MacDonald Conference will deal only with naval disarmament, the Welshman had successfully wangled into the record that he is the champion of things bigger, broader, better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...details of organization. No definite announcements have been made as yet as to what this committee has accomplished, although it is known that they are considering the appointment of instructors and the other details of the course. All of these facts are to be made public later, after the broader aspects of the school have been defined and adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WERTHEIM VISITS UNIVERSITY HALL | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...known that the State of New York had profited from the heavy transactions. A tax of 2¢ a share on no par stock and 2¢ per $100 of value on par stock, netted New York $4,884,427 in October. Thus can the state build better roads, broader bridges to bear the increasing traffic of U. S. prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Heroes, Wags, Sages | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Present day America offers an almost unexampled field for architectural development. A true American type of commercial structure has been evolved since the war, and in almost every field of architecture the expansion of the city and of the nation offers new and broader opportunities for American talent. Harvard, combining as it does the new School of City Planning and the Architectural School is particularly well fitted to contribute to the architectural and aesthetic development of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCHITECTURAL ADVANCE | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

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