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What, if anything, happens after that the audience was hard put to understand. In Act I, labeled "Avila: Saint Therese half indoors and half out of doors," Saint Therese holds the stage, permits herself to be photographed with an old-fashioned camera covered with black cloth. Other saints bombard her with questions. Finally when the chorus solemnly asks her: "If it were possible to kill 5,000 Chinamen by pressing a button would it be done?" an end man replies for her: "Saint Therese not interested...
...liberals in our colleges and universities wish to bombard Senator Long and the politics of Louisiana let them go to it. They could search further and fare worse in any search for targets worthy of their fire. But a certain restraint in the written word is always advisable, particularly for amateurs seeking to lift the political scalp of such a wily old professional as Huey Long. New York...
...Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian fishing grounds with ease but could also send a few of her better war boats around to crush the Soviet toys in the Baltic Sea and bombard the daylights out of Leningrad...
Unquestioned was the priority and importance of last week's announcement from the Rue Pierre-Curie. With alpha particles, which for more than a decade have been used to bombard vulnerable substances, the Curie-Joliots attacked boron. The expected neutrons hopped out instantly. But positrons (positive electrons) shot out also, and kept on shooting out after the bombardment stopped, as though the boron had been stimulated into a state of radioactivity. After 15 minutes the positrons were still darting out 30% as fast as at first: after 30 minutes 9% as fast; after 45 minutes 2.7%. Theoretically the radiation...
...consider an abortion, even though she knew the birth would kill her. Young Toni was a ragamuffin who made a few pennies for his grandmother by peddling sights of the stars through his telescope. His great enemy was a crazy old man who thought Toni was threatening to bombard the town...