Word: bursted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earth to Burst? Old Dr. Bailey Willis, 78, of Palo Alto, who loves to scare the wits out of "seismophobic" Southern Californians, presented a picture of Earth's history and structure which disquieted many a long-range imagination. The Earth, Dr. Willis suggested, originally was an aggregation of cold substances which gravitation pulled into a tight little planetary mass somewhere between 50 million and two billion years ago. Ever since, radioactive elements in Earth's material have been driving energy towards its centre until today the core of Earth is a hot fluid mass of iron, nickel, radium and other...
...week. On its bare stage, students were singing opera to the accompaniment of a grand piano. Restlessly, ceaselessly between the stage and the aisles moved a rusty-blonde woman in white sports dress, white low-heeled shoes. She followed the singers about, pushing them, prompting them, gesturing at them, bursting occasionally into song or husky speech. She cried at the confused pianist: "Piano, piano, don't sprint! Follow the singer!'' She brusquely interrupted arias and duets: "Très pianissimo. . . . But, my dear, you are folle with love for the man! . . . The public-look at your public...
Cocaine Sandwiches. Next to the Duke of Manchester's acquittal, nothing so revealed the quality of British Justice, poetic and otherwise, last week as the windup of Bournemouth's famed "Mallet Murder" (TIME, April 22). When police burst into the home of Sentimental Lyric Writer Mrs. Alma Victoria Rattenbury, 38, who called her rich and aged husband by the pet name "Rats," they found him dying, found on the wooden mallet that killed him fingerprints of callow, adoring Chauffeur George Percy Stoner...
...Test Pilot Boris Sergievsky opened the throttles for the initial flight, the ship surged forward under the drive of its two 750-h.p. Hornet engines. Suddenly those on shore burst into a torrent of excited Russian. One of the motors had quit, owing to a defective fuel pump. Capt. Sergievsky, unaware of the engine failure, kept The throttles open. The 543 got up "on the step," lumbered into the air on one motor after 15 sec. At 200 ft. Mechanic Albert Morvay got the ailing engine working again by "wabbling" fuel with a hand pump. Capt. Sergievsky brought the ship...
...campaign culminates in a grand burst of ballyhoo over Railroad Week, celebrating the air-conditioning of all Western through trains, the first actual service of various streamliners. Festivities will begin June 10 at 8 a. m. when every locomotive from Chicago west, with steam up, will blast its whistle for a full minute. All the round-houses will hold open house...