Word: marking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort...
Invisible Empire. Far beyond these visible outlines extends the invisible empire of the Dollar. Ten billion dollars, in full battle array, are yearly fighting the pound sterling, the franc, the guilder, the mark for supremacy...
Great Britain. Official barometers registered a low mark of 27.5 inches, a low pressure seldom equaled by the worst tropical typhoons. Off the Welsh coast the British destroyer Tormentor, dismantled, was being towed to a shipbreaking yard. The tow rope snapped, the Tormentor and her skeleton crew of four vanished into the storm...
...physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor "developed" electronic engravings on gold, iodine on silver, hydrochloric acid on zinc, iodine on copper...
Graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1887, Professor Olmsted began teaching at St. Mark's. In 1897 he left to go to what was then called Peck's School, a sparse collection of school buildings on a hill a mile south of Pomfret, Conn. Within three decades he fashioned it into an orderly T-shaped array of modern Colonial dormitories and classrooms, looking confidently across wide, well kept grounds. He gathered an able faculty, capable of educating educables as well as any of the famed New England schools...