Word: millionth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich & Poor. Last year the millionth Mayo patient passed through the Clinic doors. In a half-century of partnership the Mayos have made millions, but they have restricted themselves and their staff to small salaries, have turned back their surplus profits to the Clinic and the University of Minnesota. In 1915 they founded a graduate school in connection with the University of Minnesota. Shrewd, dignified Dr. Will, now 77 and recovering in Rochester from a gastric ulcer operation, has managed finances with an eagle eye. Poor patients (approximately one-fourth of the Mayo practice) pay nothing, sometimes get checks instead...
...inch mirror was cast by Corning Glass Works of Corning, N. Y., and ground to within one-millionth of an inch of the mathematically correct curve by Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., which also built the telescope tube, mounting and drive mechanism. The site selected was Mt. Locke, 6,791 feet above sea level, 225 miles southeast of El Paso...
...said some of its totalizers were not yet working. It leaked out that 6,000 to 8,000 Fair employes check in as visitors every time they enter the grounds, thus raising the apparent daily attendance. When Perley Boone, the Fair's publicity chief, went to greet the millionth visitor, he forgot his ticket, got in only after a long struggle...
...This can be understood from the analogy of electric current. The wattage, or power, is the product of volts and amperes. If the electromotive force or pressure is a million volts but the quantity of current is only one-millionth of an ampere, the power is just one watt, not enough to light a household lamp...
...duration of the flash can be timed approximately by noting the amount of blur (equal to the distance traveled during exposure) on the bullet. If the bullet travels at 1,000 ft. per sec. and the blur amounts to one-thousandth of a foot, the time interval is one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished...