Word: disks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...probably it is only a lost plane trying to slip back to Norway; doubtless it will be shot down over the East Coast; maybe it's a reconnaissance! Somebody looks out to see what the moon is like, returning with the information that the moon, a luminous threequarter disk, throws its light over the entire city, and that there are low clouds in the clear sky. According to our experience this is an ideal night for a raid, and, anyway, we have had too long a break now; one must prepare...
...smaller ones. The cutting, which follows more than a year of study and experimentation by experts, will take 15 months of sawing, cleaving (splitting) and polishing, will turn nearly 50% of the diamond's weight to dust. With a whirring, .0035-of-an-inch-thick, Phosphor Bronze cutting disk, swabbed with olive oil and diamond dust, Grasselly last week began cutting. It will take about three weeks to complete the first...
Neither team could develop anything that looked like an efficient attack throughout the entire contest, but in scrapping for and retrieving the orrant pack the Boston team far outshone the Crimson. Once they were in possession of the disk they were about as uncoordinated as the Hoddermen, but the result of last night's game shows that they had it more often...
...from guns)-the whole only 2¼-in. thick. Architect Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning, these slenderizing pencils would take about two tons weight each where they were called on to support twelve. In an official test the column held up 60 tons...
...April 7 there will be an annular eclipse of the sun. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon's image, though centred against the sun's disk, is too small to cover it entirely, leaving a ring of bright light around the edge. The images of the sun and moon are nearly the same size in the sky, but the distance of both bodies from earth varies slightly, and the size of their apparent disks varies accordingly. April's annular eclipse begins in the Pacific, crosses the southern U.S. -darkening Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Pensacola...