Word: crystalize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Incoming impulses, though closely bordering those of another station (three kilocycles away) are sharply defined in the radiostat. All extraneous impulses are clipped off in a piezoelectric* crystal gate, which is the heart of the invention. Future developments for the invention within sight of Dr. Robinson: increasing cable capacities from 500 words per minute, their present rate, to 20,000 w.p.m.; tremendous expansion of trans-Atlantic telephone service...
...Blair and California Packing are very friendly. At present General Foods has more than 80 branded products (ten leading ones: Walter Baker's Chocolate, Maxwell House Coffee, Calumet Baking Powder, Postum, Hellman's Mayonnaise, Grape Nuts, JellO, Log Cabin Syrup, Swan's Down Cake Flour, Diamond Crystal Salt) which it distributes through 400,000 grocery stores. The average age of the component companies is 40 years. Hoariest of all is Walter Baker's Chocolate, now celebrating its 150th anniversary. Chairman of General Foods is Edward F. Hutton, husband of the daughter of Postum-Founder Charles William...
...oxen began hauling the logs which formed its 32-foot diapason, its tiny flutinos. Glue was made by boiling strips of cattle and buffalo hides. Recently reconstructed, the instrument, with 5,500 pipes, is among the world's largest, draws comparisons with those in Frieburg, London's Crystal Palace, Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Designed on a monumental, historic scale, the pageant would begin, of course, in Heaven, where the Creator's appointment of Jesus as a Redeemer was to be represented with luminous effects and invisible voices. Next would be shown the creation...
...long enough to be good paddles. She has big hands and a tall, athletic body so matured by swimming that it looks little like the body of a 16-year-old girl. She has blonde hair, an expression of indolence and good-nature. Ray E. Daughters of the Crystal pool in Seattle taught her to swim...
...anyone had ever gone there before him, slid Frank Ernest Nicholson, journalist-explorer, into the unmeasured depths of the Carlsbad Cave in the Guadalupe Mountains in lower New Mexico. Last week came reports of his expedition, begun in January (TIME, Jan. 27). He told of nightmare rock formations, of crystal clear water and perfect cave pearls in a subterranean pool. While he was drinking, a feeble chirping split the stifling black silence. He investigated, found a nest of milk-white crickets, curiously not blind from living in the dark...