Word: ascends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some viscosity. But about 2° above absolute zero, liquid helium has so little stickiness that - as several cryogenic experimenters have found - "rather phenomenal surface films" will spread over any surface brought in contact with it. These films will, in fact, climb right out of the liquid and ascend to considerable heights against gravity...
...voyage enlivened by the sight of pirates did not cool Mother Duchesne's ardor for civilizing the "savages" of the New World. The first thing she did when she stepped ashore was kiss the boggy soil of Louisiana. It took her and her four colleagues 40 days to ascend the river to St. Louis. The nuns were placed aft on the steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half of Mother Callan's book. It is full...
...Russian aristocracy reduced to romantic humility is saved from triteness by the simple addition of four billion francs, entrusted by the old tsar to the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna and her consort, Prince Mikail Alexandrovitch Ouratieff, to be delivered to the new tsar whenever he should ascend the imperial throne...
Damn your souls! You advertise in a full page ad of TIME, Oct. 11 that you will be on the air tonight at 9 p.m. Having nothing better to do, I dry the dishes and run the vacuum cleaner from 8:30 to 9. I then ascend the stairs to the den and turn on the radio. I check the paper to find out the correct station. I am burned up to discover that you or the Blue Network or some other fiend has again changed the time to 8:30, and I have missed the program...
...both the new Justice and President Roosevelt who appointed him, is whether a man of such obviously injudicial temperment, and of such palpable intellectual dishonesty as to dodge slyly away from the only things that the public should have heard last night, is to don the black robe and ascend the highest tribunal in the country and there to sit in judgement with the while robe of his unanswered past fluttering behind...