Word: blast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clumsy persistence in trying to formulate stop-gap measures to replace laws ignominiously thrown out by the Supreme Court is typical of his underhand methods. If he had sufficient courage to brave the political blast, he would come out in favor of a constitutional amendment to legalize Hot Oil, Guffey Coal, and A.A.A. The people could then endorse or reject his theories of government and would be able to decide for themselves whether or not they wanted a planned economy and governmental regulation or industry. These fundamental issues, which differ widely from ideals that Americans have hitherto cherished, must...
...blast a reservoir on his farm at Stanfordville, N. Y., Dr. Edgar Ernst needed 50 Ib. of dynamite, ordered it sent by freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES...
...November 1924 a blast was fired in a limestone quarry near Taungs in Bechuanaland, South Africa. In the material that tumbled to the foot of the cliff were fossil fragments from a cave which the blast had exposed. The manager gathered the fossil-bearing chunks together, handed them to a Johannesburg geologist named Young who was stopping by on business. Dr. Young took them to Dr. Raymond Arthur Dart, professor of anatomy at the University of Johannesburg. Laboriously scraping away the rocky mineral, Professor Dart uncovered a small, fragmentary skull with the face almost intact. The scientist quickly realized that...
...those who agreed with Professor Dart from the first in placing Australopihecus "in or near the line by which man las arisen" was Dr. Robert Broom, paleontologist of the Transvaal Museum in retoria. Last July another blast in another limestone quarry, this time at Sterkfontein, turned up another fossil brain case. The manager, urged by Dr. Broom to keep his eyes peeled for a Taungs ape, landed this to the scientist. Feverish earch disclosed the upper face, the skull base, the right jawbone with three teeth, a detached molar. Last week in Nature appeared a letter from Dr. Broom describing...
Professor Crew attacked the problem with direct simplicity. He made himself a sleeve from a length of automobile tire inner tube, in which he cut a square-inch aperture. Slipping his arm into the sleeve, Professor Crew thrust it into the 40 m.p.h. blast blown through a sunless wind-tunnel ordinarily used for testing model airplanes. During a half-hour exposure to the blast, the square-inch of bare skin "exhibited ''goose-flesh' but at no subsequent time was there the slightest evidence of reddening or chapping of the exposed area of skin," reported Professor Crew...