Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their fighting spirit in the centre of the pit. Then, at a command from the referee, the handlers returned to opposite sides of the pit, crouched down and, at the command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down in a swirl of feathers, the lightning death strokes of their steel gaffs* too quick for the human...
...father finally told the boy to go ahead and be an actor. Clifford started with amateurs in The Bronx; then joined a cooperative group and earned about $20 a year. He wrote radio plays and went on the air; he worked, like Playwrights Arthur Kober and Moss Hart, in summer camps...
...California Institute of Technology a clever, conscientious young physicist named Carl David Anderson found anomalies in cosmic-ray behavior which convinced him that, in the upper air particles were being created which were lighter than protons but heavier than electrons, and both positively and negatively charged (TIME, Nov. 29, 1937). Drs. Jabez Curry Street and Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such...
Since it can be made to operate switches and contactors at the critical temperature, the Jackson-Russell alloy can be used to shut off costly machines at the point of overheating; for automatic fire alarms and sprinklers; for air conditioning, refrigeration, household heating. So far the alloy has no name except the "Fe-Ni-Cr-Si system," from the symbols of the four chemical elements which compose...
...books like Quincy Howe's and Margaret Halsey's, English reviewers have an air of fixed agreeable tolerance. How they would take The Decline and Fall of the British Empire will never be known, since it will not be published in England. The most vehement book of the year, it consists of 263 pages of denunciation of England and all things English, her politics, smugness, selfishness, morals-even her birth rate...