Word: meters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government. The business of the Bureau is to compare and test the standards of weight, length, power, heat, resistance, etc. used in American laboratories, commerce, and universities, with the official standards of the government. Here are kept under glass at even temperature the platinum-iridium bar one meter long and the kilogram of the same material on which our weights and measures are based...
...world's record for the 75-meter dash...
None of the wave lengths will go above 600 meters, which will be appreciated by amateurs with weak receiving sets. The 540 Class A stations which now use the 360-meter length will be allowed to retain it, but new stations weaker than Class B must come into the 222-300 band. The Department of Commerce is enlarging its forces to cover the country in nine inspection districts and check the wave lengths of every station...
...theatre that feeling of just waking up from a nightmare, with all the thrill of emotional participation and none of the consequent hazards. You can get the keenest satisfaction out of a mild taxicab flirtation in Anything Might Happen, with no anticipatory tremors at sound of the clicking meter. You can share the Parisian amours of the charming wife and somewhat less charming husband in The Love Habit with no fear for your ultimate respectability. You can listen to the sweet mutual nothings of Romeo and Juliet, and your amorous envy will be allayed by prescience of their unfortunate finish...
Murchison of the Newark A. C., world 60-yard champion, won two events, leading in the 50-yard handicap, and gaining first place in a special 50-yard race, beating Leconey, intercollegiate 100-yard champion, in 5 3-10 seconds. Ray, Illinois A. C., world's 5000 meter record holder, won the John W. Overton memorial mile race in the fast time of 4 minutes 19 1-10 seconds...