Word: bolte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brookhart's Bolt. For some days, Republicans in Iowa heard sappers. They sat tight in their trenches and waited for the explosion of the mine. They knew that part of the earth under their feet was unsteady. Last week, the explosion came-and the Republicans counterattacked to make the best of what was for them a bad business...
...jury will sit for months upon furniture from Michigan. Earnest debates will only be interrupted long enough to bolt down meals prepared with advertised ingredients. That schoolgirl complexion will fade, and unkempt beards, which would defy, the most formidable blade, will hide the beauty of late model collars...
...Peek Jr., consulting engineer of the General Electric Co., told of experiments with lightning, in which he found that the average charge of a bolt of lightning is 100,000,000 volts (about a million times the charge of electricity used for domestic purposes). Its destructive effect comes from the explosive suddenness with which it is discharged. If it could be stored in a storage battery it would drive an electric automobile for about five miles or heat an electric iron for a day. By experimenting with artificial lightning of about 2,000,000 volts, it was found that lightning...
...hammered out an anti-war doctrine. The strongly pacifist resolution (TIME, May 26) demanding that the Methodist Church dissociate itself from all war, offensive or defensive, was defeated. Pacifists led by Dr. Ray Allen, of Rochester, N. Y., and Dr. J. M. Gray, of Scranton, Pa., threatened to bolt the convention. Their threat resulted in the adoption of a report which almost, though not quite, upheld their extreme position. The Methodist Church was put on record as being opposed to the draft of military service unless Capital and Labor were simultaneously drafted. Said Dr. Gray: "If the Government comes...
...Reverend Doctors threatening to bolt...