Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the metallurgical journal Metal Progress commented on the researches of Professor Daniel Hanson of England's University of Birmingham, who had divided creep into four stages. These are elastic stretch (like rubber); plastic flow (like mud); slower plastic flow; approach to fracture. Professor Hanson's theory of fracture is that the metal atoms, under continuing mechanical stress plus their own agitation due to heat, are moved one by one to new positions so that the whole structure is weakened. When enough atoms are thus individually moved, the metal breaks...
...Washington, D. C., attorneys for Mrs. Mabel Jones West of Birmingham, Ala. paid $280 to cover printing and other costs of an appeal to the Supreme Court against a Birmingham ordinance requiring her to have her Pekingese inoculated against rabies...
Arthur took revenge the best way he knew how. Said he over the air, before the BBC could shush him: "OUR Askitoff is no good. It burns holes in concrete. It wiped out six families in Birmingham. It won't remove anything from nothing...
...Chairman Ed Birmingham of Iowa's State Democratic Committee came close to spoiling the scenery with a blob of politics just before the curtain went up on Mr. Hopkins' act. Zealous candidate for the vacant throne of the Bureau of Fisheries in Mr. Hopkins' department, Mr. Birmingham gave the impression that Iowa delegates were being lined up for Mr. Hopkins' nomination as President next year. Mr. Birmingham was quickly shushed, but no political observer missed the point that the prize at stake in Harry Hopkins' performance was not just one State's convention delegates...
...principal streets plastered with a proclamation issued by the illegal, fanatically nationalist Irish Republican Army. The proclamation also appeared in Northern Ireland, the six counties still under British rule. In England, while police officials chased around after the bombers, copies of the proclamation were posted in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham. It called for militant action against Britain to force the long-sought union of all Ireland under one Republic, proclaimed...