Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silly ass if I thought for a moment that a man could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...
...apparently felt some necessity for including the largest possible proportion of men who have rowed on preparatory school crews. It is admittedly difficult to weld a free swinging unit from material which comes to Harvard possessed of ingrained differences in rowing habits, but it is a tradition difficult to break away from. Mr. Brown should not be too severely censured for his failure...
...ridiculous. The hydrogen atom, simplest of the 92 elements, has a single proton at its centre and a single electron swinging around that centre. The two may be particles or they may be waves. (The experiment tended to prove that they were waves.) But they are indivisible. To break them up would wipe them out of existence. However, the hydrogen molecule is composed of two hydrogen atoms. Chemists and physicists have believed that both electrons revolve about their respective protons in the same direction. Dr. Bonhoeffer proved that in one type of hydrogen the electrons do just that...
...ship" off somehow. Or rather, the "ship" got itself off. He could see groups of cadets and "monitors" ahead down the field break and run for the fences as he came tearing toward them-probably zigzagging every which way-"craziest 'solo' in history!" Just couldn't get the "ship" headed straight. They called it a "ship"! It felt more like a slithering shingle...
...Borough (New York City), to Henry Ford. Last week he got his answer: a Fordman would call on Mr. Harvey, confer with him on what to do with old cars abandoned along Queens highways. A solution, adopted in Detroit, was suggested: haul the cars to jails and let prisoners break them up. ¶ The Ford plants turned out in August 205,634 Model A cars and trucks, a record for August. In only one other month, October 1925, has Ford production passed this figure...