Word: inch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Million-volt X-rays, like tigers, are safer when caged. The walls of the 100-ft.-by-35-ft. building housing the machine are 14 inches of concrete plus twelve inches of brick. At one end of the room is a big door of 18-inch concrete encased in one inch of steel. When the machine is ready to go, the researchers leave the room through this door. Then the machine is turned on at a remote control panel...
...Tectyl does two things: 1) separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...
Tectyl 511, which makes a film .0003 inch thick, is the kind that elbows aside sea water, was used to flush the Squalus. It worked so well that the Navy uses it now for a great variety of corrosion-fighting jobs...
...past month a group of six hardy astronomers has travelled the fifty miles to Oak Ridge and back every clear night. The thirty-odd eight by ten inch photographic plates which they take each night will not have been completely studied for a year or more, but some results of interest have already been found...
...having tied the orchestras of two continents in knots, set about composing something still more difficult. When he had finished his new piece, a Violin Concerto, Schönberg announced that it w?as practically unplayable, that, to play it, violinists would have to grow their fourth fingers an inch or two longer. Crowed he: "The concerto is extremely difficult, just as much for the head as for the fingers...