Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Explorer Beebe saw notably little from the windows of his dangling bathysphere. Professor Piccard hopes to see more. As two small electric propellers maneuver his submarine through the calm black depths at three miles an hour, two powerful arc lamps will light up the water around it. Automatic cameras will take ten pictures a second through conical quartz portholes...
Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine
...wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release-an arc of hundreds of arrows speeding with the twang of a gigantic guitar on their victorious way-is one of the most gratifying payoffs of suspense yet contrived...
Western Union calls its lamp a "concentrated arc." Inside a small glass bulb filled with argon gas are two electrodes. On one is a tiny speck of zirconium oxide. When the current flows, this turns to molten zirconium metal, glows ten times as brightly for its area as the brightest tungsten filament...
...world of practical things as the first fantastic puttering around with atomic power. In 1858, when miracles began to be reported at Lourdes, psychology and medicine were little better prepared to investigate and establish the facts accurately than they were in the time of Jeanne d'Arc. If Pierrette is really comparable to Bernadette, then science has an opportunity compared to which a total eclipse of the sun is commonplace - or else religion has the prospect of another Lourdes...