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Word: bitting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final result was just another step in the Hanoverians' victory march, but the close score indicates that the men of Osborne Cowles are not unbeatable and that the going will be just a bit rougher from now on. The Elis were able to check Gun Broberg's goalward efforts, but Captain Dudis came through in the pinch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Indians Head League With Four Wins After Close Call Against Inspired Yale Quintet | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

...sculptors they received their inspiration from similar pieces of art how being constructed by a group of artists up in a backward town in New Hampshire known as Hanover. "We thought that John Harvard ought to have some female company on these lonely nights even if she is a bit cold," the Crimson artists explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Venus of the Yard" Appears Briefly In Front of Grays Hall During Night | 2/7/1939 | See Source »

Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Accident | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Hahn bombarded his bit of uranium with neutrons in order to obtain ekarhenium, a heavy element similarly created some years ago by Italian Physicist Enrico Fermi. Hahn obtained ekarhenium, all right, and something else he did not expect, which he identified as atoms of barium and krypton. He applied the principles of quantum mechanics (atomic mathematics) to find out how much of a tempest in a test tube occurs when ekarhenium breaks up into barium and krypton. Answer: 200,000,000 volts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Accident | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Dearborn, Mich., Mrs. Stella Maude Kronberg spied a dog struggling among the ice floes in River Rouge. She got out her boat, spent two hours smashing her way through the ice, pulled back to shore with the dog in her arms. Once there, it bit her cheek and scampered off. She died of rabies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: War | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

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