Word: thousandth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Charles Vernon Boys, British physicist who for 26 years has been trying to measure the duration of a lightning flash. His tool has been a camera with two lenses revolving on a disk. At Tuxedo Park he finally and happily measured a flash. It lasted one seven-thousandth of a second...
Although "swine" is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments, its use by squat, choleric Stefan Raditch for perhaps the one thousandth time in his life produced an astounding effect...
...into the nature of electromagnetic waves. Those waves extend in a continuous series from wireless waves, which are 25 metres and more in length, through heat waves, light waves, ultraviolet waves, x-rays, gamma rays. X-rays give off gamma rays. Professor Compton measured them. One is a ten thousandth millionth of an inch long...
...Theoretical one-thousandth of the U. S. dollar...
...golf and tennis as zestfully as he works at physics, delved into the mysteries of atoms, ions, electrons. Often he strode into his laboratory at midnight after dinner or the theatre. For hours, in impeccable evening dress, he tried to measure infinitesimal electrons on oil droplets less than one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, checked his results many a time. At last he isolated the ion, studied its ways and habits. For this he received the Nobel Prize (TIME...