Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institution and Dr. Gregory Breit of New York University, he worked for several years to develop a two-million-volt tube which produces X-rays equivalent to the gamma rays of 182 million dollars worth of radium. Laboratory significance : scientists by using these powerful rays may be able to burst the atom nucleus. Practical significance: X-rays from high voltage tubes resemble cancer-curing gamma rays, may possibly be used as a radium substitute...
Protestant success fretted the Catholic hierarchy until, last week, Archbishop Diaz burst out with a diatribe to which he shrewdly gave a nation and political tone. His argument was loaded with international dynamite...
...French warship hovered unobtrusively in the offing, taking notes. Overboard went the Artiglio's two chief divers, Alberto Gianni and S. Francesci. After them were lowered special mines which were intended to blow up the hulk of the Florence H. Suddenly the sea rose like a bubble, burst with a deafening roar into towers of spray. The little Artiglio was tossed in the air like a child's toy, broke in two, sank instantly. Only seven of her crew of 21 were picked up alive. Rescuers found the lifeless bodies of Divers Gianni...
...Cowperthwaite Criminal Quartet from the Cambridge Backs, composed of three male voices, and a tenor, will burst into bellicose balladry for their first appearance upon any stage. A battery of piano-accordions will discharge in a newly-composed Kinder-symphonie, for the last time upon any stage. A variety of vivid divertissements by several stellar scintillants, recruited from the ranks of Dunster democrats, will bolster the bill...
...Burst into prolonged uproar as a motion censuring the Labor Government was introduced by Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin...