Word: pinhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus powerful ultrasound beams from four separate irradiators onto a target about the size of a pinhead...
...came to a sharp focus at the exact part of the ansa lenticularis on the left side (controlling right-side movements) that Dr. Meyers wanted to destroy. The ultrasound dose lasted only 1.8 seconds. The patient was moved twice, a minute fraction of an inch, so that two more pinhead-size parts of the ansa lenticularis were destroyed...
...have to say about Russia's underpaid scientists, or are they overpaid? The trouble with us is that we just don't find an end for pricing money. I am sure that Russia does not spend so many billion dollars as we do to lift a pinhead...
Manhattan Spy-Wife. Some messages were recorded on a film which could be softened and rolled into a ball; others were microdotted, i.e., whole pages of printing were reduced on film to pinhead size. On occasions there were personal meetings, such as contacts on the 21st day of each month, when Hayhanen wore a red-striped bow tie and smoked a pipe. One time he met a former member of Russia's U.N. delegation, received information in a movie-house men's room...
...locate defects inside the heart, Physician David H. Lewis of Philadelphia and Engineer James R. Brown Jr. of the U.S. Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. have devised a microphone (more precisely, a transducer) no bigger than a pinhead (.06 in. diameter). Slipped into the heart at the end of a catheter, it applies the principles of submarine detection to the detection of disease...