Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But when Dr. Hahn examined his end-products and sat down with pencil and paper to figure out what had happened, he concluded that he had created the most violent atomic explosion ever effected by human agency. Moreover, he had not intended to do it. It was a great accident...
Said the Judge in a terse memorandum explaining his protest to the U. S. Treasury (which had paid Artist Clark $800 of $2,000 due him): "The work ... is exceptionally well done and there are many appropriate places where such murals might be displayed. . . . [But] jurors should not have their...
Perhaps not by sheer accident the last official opinion of outgoing Attorney General Homer Stillé Cummings, published last week, tweaked the Jew-baiting nose of Nazi Germany. The State Department had asked the Attorney General to advise whether to deny, on grounds of moral turpitude, a visa to a...
Central figure of The Great Man Votes is a broken-down Harvard professor who, at the death of his wife, gives way to drink and inertia. An accident of ward politics makes this picturesque bum of crucial importance in a municipal election. How this situation affects him and his lively...
That the U. S. became a nation of coffee-swizzlers was no more accident than Great Britain's taking to tea. Coffee reached England about 1650 from Arabia, tea about 1857 from China. In the interval, England's great East India Company let Dutch and French exporters grab...