Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisp, but a gusty wind was swirling a sudden downpour of snow. Up the avenue from the Capitol came a huge dray drawn by six white Percherons?an unusually large hitch even for those horse days. Reaching the sidewalk I turned to give a second glance and then burst into uproarious laughter. . . . Greenough's George Washington had appeared through the haze of snow, and towering there ten feet high, naked to the waist, one arm raised to heaven, riding in state to a fitting limbo of an obscure storage niche in the Museum, seemed to be driving that six-horse...
...Back of most of these extras was more than a burst of Christmas cheer. It was acute corporate fear of the tax collector. Under the Revenue Act the Federal Government may lay a penalty up to 35% on the net income of a corporation which accumulates surpluses in excess of what the Government believes it "reasonably" needs. Month ago the Treasury Department launched a drive to collect such penalties from some 100 U. S. corporations (TIME, Oct. 29). The Treasury Department found itself in a morass of legal tangles arising from the difficulty of deciding what needs are ''reasonable...
...undergraduates who burst into print through the "Mail" today must have been reading Dave Egan of the Boston American, the alumnus with the chip on his shoulder. Anyone in anyway acquainted with Harvard athletics knows that Mr. Bingham and the varsity coaches have cooperated splendidly. Both are needed--and there has been no usurpation of powers. The football coach has always chosen his own assistants just as he wished to. He has been given great leeway and there has been no sign of dictation...
...word revolution, the proceeds to be given to the defence of, say, such people as Luis Quintanilla, by all those who write the word and never have shot nor been shot at; who never have stored arms nor filled a bomb, nor have discovered arms nor had a bomb burst among them; who never have gone hungry in a general strike, nor have manned streetcars when the tracks are dynamited; who never have sought cover in a street trying to get their heads behind a gutter; who never have seen a woman shot in the head, in the breast...
...Urey's heavy hydrogen did not burst entirely unexpectedly upon the world, nor was its discovery in any way an accident. It was rather the result of ingenuity backed by sound logic. There were discrepancies in atomic weights. The oxygen atom should have weighed 16 times as much as the hydrogen atom, but it did not. Then it was found that oxygen had two isotopes* weighing 17 and 18 units respectively. Thus it began to seem more & more probable that hydrogen might also have one or more isotopes of its own. Birge of the University of California and Menzel...