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Last month Dr. von Grosse asked to have the world supply of protoactinium back for a while so that he could make more photographs. He took it into a darkroom illuminated only by the red glow of a photographic lantern, arranged his microscope and camera. In shaping the tungsten thread to which the protoactinium clung, he was a little too rough. The delicate element crumbled to invisible dust...
...package carrier fitted with special gear, capacity 700 Ib. including driver." For the next few years Autocar was a popular passenger make, sporting a propeller shaft at a time when most cars were chain-driven. It pioneered the porcelain spark plug in the U. S., and its thread has since become standard for all spark plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted by other truck makers. One advantage is increased payload per inch...
Former meteorographs have carried a clock or propellor to operate the instrument, as was recently described in the CRIMSON. The difficulty lay in making a clock cheap enough to be lost after every ascension and in finding an efficient propellor. This instrument carries, however, simply a screw thread whose grooves are filled with an insulating material. On this bears a contact attached to an evacuated box such as is used in an ordinary aneroid barometer. Every time the contact crosses a thread, a corresponding interruption occurs in the radio signal. This signal was received on a rotating drum. The distance...
...needle clocked 182. Refusing her a permanent job, they made her a substitute biology teacher, told her to train down to 150. For six months she rode horseback, hiked ten miles a day. dieted to the limit, became so weak that she ''could hardly pick up a thread.'' Then the examiners asked for her weight, still shook their heads when she said 160. Thoroughly demoralized, she stopped dieting, promptly swelled to 181. Last summer, not an ounce lighter in spite of four fretful years, Miss Freistater appealed her application for a permanent teacher...
...there are some brilliant spots along the drab, flat thread. It's fun to have a chuckle at pompous, helpless royalty a is "Jubilee," but nobody gets very excited over royalty now-a-days. It's fun to pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve...