Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the U. S. Senate, he made an apology: "I remember in my own country on the Scottish border there was an old minister who once a month thought it his duty to deliver a sermon upon the terrors of hell, when he sternly dangled his congregation over the abyss; but being a humane man, he liked to finish on a gentler note. He used to conclude thus: 'Of course, my friends, ye understand that the Almighty is compelled to do things in His official capacity that He would scorn to do as a private individual...
...economic queen grandly surveyed the chasm for a moment, looked at the sign that hung over it; then barked an order down the yawning abyss. We watched, fascinated. In a minute a lily-white parcel, wrapped in tissue and tied with a red ribbon, sailed out into the air. She circled under it, like a fairy quarterback, nabbed it, and, darting into her car, vanished in the rtaffic...
...deeps. Next Dr. Ewing set about finding what the Shelf was made of. Every day, in good weather and bad, a small boat put off from the ketch, planted explosive containers on the bottom while the seismographs were dropped from the Atlantis. Dull booms rolled up from the abyss...
...members of 1939 are opposed to tumbling into an abyss of mediocrity where they receive nothing for nothing, this is the year when they should take careful stock of what they want to do and learn how they can do it. There are chances open along academic, athletic, extracurricular, and social lines. The only requisite for success is the demarcation of a suitable field and the desire...
...this abyss, Dr. Swann had recourse to modern laboratory experiments which show radiation transformed back into matter. Every physicist under 35, he declared, would agree with him that such demonstrations are valid. What apparently happens is that the quantum of radiation, scoring a hit on an atomic nucleus, vanishes and gives birth to an electron and a positron-i.e., particles of matter. The quantum of radiation is "mathematically irritated" by the atomic nucleus into giving up its existence. Here Dr. Swann ran into the difficulty that in his sea of radiation there would be no atomic nuclei to provide...