Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight before that date a burst of sunspot activity began. Nevertheless high-frequency reception over that half of the world lighted by the sun improved instead of faltering. Indeed by Oct. 21-23 it was the best the Bureau had ever observed. Next day-the crucial day-reception fell off sharply by half, and the expected fading occurred. Simultaneously the uppermost main layer of the ionosphere (radio-reflecting region of electrified air) rose from 155 mi. to a record height...
...Chamber of Deputies with a small piece of paper on which he lazily drew lines back & forth with a stubby pencil. Except for the continuing flight of gold, the anticlimax could not have been more complete. "Save the Franc." Whipping himself up, Socialist Boss Léon Blum burst into an oration designed to show up Premier Laval as at heart a blackshirt despite his lifelong affectation of pure white ties & shirts. Thundered scrawny, droop-mustached Boss Blum at the Radical Socialists: "Are you going to fall into the trap which is being laid for you? Are you going...
When popcorn is shaken over a fire, pleasant is the music its kernels make as they burst into white and edible blossoms. Last week U. S. industry, warmed by Recovery's flame, burst out in many a happy pop: ¶ The American Washing Machine Manufacturers' Association announced that factory shipments of household washers for ten months of 1935 totaled 1,241,000 against 1,097,000 in ten months of 1934. ¶ In Gilbertville, Mass. musicians blew bugles at street corners, assembled the town's population to hear good news. The George H. Gilbert Manufacturing Co. (worsted...
...last day of his visit, however, he spent with a totter in Dunster House. Upon entering the dining hall the visitor again burst into effusions of delight. He remarked on the extreme youth of most of the young men eating in Dunster, and thought it singular indeed that the members of the faculty were so young. when his fried explained that Dunster was just the same as Lowell he was shocked...
...financial squabbles are like charming and pathetic parodies of a humdrum adult world. Both books devote much attention to the social background. At the time of Byron's fame, England was ruled by the fat, "superbly filthy" Prince of Wales, later George IV, who was known to have burst into tears when Beau Brummell criticized his clothing, and whose greatest achievement was his construction of the pleasure resort at Brighton (TIME, Aug. 19). Since George III was locked up as a madman, the prestige of royalty had never been so low. When machinery was introduced, workers rioted, smashing frames...