Word: verticale
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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...
"To turn around in mid-air on its vertical axis, or
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...
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.
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...