Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representatives at the Conference have insisted on battleships of 35,000 tons with sufficient fuel-carrying capacity for long cruises, owing to this lack of bases. Great Britain, with many bases dotting the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean from Gibraltar to Hongkong, has been content with smaller ships of less fuel capacity. The two policies have naturally clashed in the attempts toward mutual agreement on fleet strength...
Engraving prayers on pinheads may be Art for Art's sake, but making smaller & smaller radio transmitters is a matter of convenience and utility. National Broadcasting Co. last week exhibited a three-inch cubical box with slender, demountable, 10-in. antennae projecting on each side. Like the heavier portable sets which it is intended to replace, this pocket transmitter enables an announcer to roam freely at State fairs, golf tournaments, Roller Derbies and train wrecks, ready to broadcast at any instant. Weighing less than a pound, powered by a 90-volt battery which weighs some...
...real backbone of the legal profession, Ransom declared, does not lie in New York or Boston or Washington. It is not in any of the larger metropolises, but in the smaller cities with a population of under 50,000. If there is anything worthwhile being developed in this country, it is being done in these smaller cities and towns, he said...
Professor Casagrande also discovered that in sandy and silty soils, water for the growing ice layers is supplied from free ground water in the soil beneath. The faster the freezing ice is carried out, the smaller is the amount of water supplied from beneath, he found...
...pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with a square sapphire, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds had fallen off during the procession and disappeared. It had been picked up and quietly pocketed by an officer who as quietly produced it to his bug-eyed superiors. Normally the Crown reposes with the Sceptre and other Crown Jewels at the lower of London inside a large, round...