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U. S. women whose ideas of a fashion opening are gathered from cinema or from the circuses which U. S. cloak & suiters stage in large hotels, would be disappointed by a genuine Parisian premiere. There are no orchestras, no spotlights, no elegant young men in cutaways. The rooms are elaborately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Higher Hats, Lower Waists | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

"To turn around in mid-air on its vertical axis, or

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Paddleplane on Paper | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

The flagman swings his lamp, or his flag or hand, in a vertical circle at half-arm's length across the track. The engineer blows three short blasts, his indication that he has understood the signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Easier for Engineers | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

The significant part of the new Marconi short-wave set is the transmitter-receiver. This, he explained last week, consists of four vertical copper rods, curved and placed in such a way that they outline a parabolic basin. A series of short copper rods projects from each vertical rod.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marconi's Parabola | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

The vault is placed on property adjacent to the new Harvard Astronomical Observatory. It has no superstructure, the only visible part being a skylight over a small workshop next to the vault, in which instruments not susceptible to shocks will be placed. The cell in which the seismographs will be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VAULT FOR RECORDING EARTHQUAKES FINISHED | 12/1/1932 | See Source »

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