Word: burstingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Einstein's relativity, which burst on the world as a mathematical vision but which has accumulated many astronomical proofs through the years, explains mass, gravity, inertia, space and time, but not atoms and electric particles, which seem to perform in a bizarre, non-relativistic world of their own. Quantum mechanics, the mathematics of the atom, has developed apart from relativity. Physicists of broad beam feel, however, that this should...
...Since September . . . Osservatore and the Holy See have had a common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again. That day Editor Dalla Torre printed 150,000 copies, speeded up the Vatican's little press until it almost shook apart...
...Vittorio Veneto they bumped into two British Embassy attaches and two U. S. newspaper correspondents. One of the Englishmen, Secretary George La Bouchere, started to peel one of the posters from a wall. With that the fight was on. Into the lobby of the Regina Carlton burst the milling group. Correspondent Virginia Cowles of the North American Newspaper Alliance ran to telephone British Embassy Counselor Sir Noel Charles, while the Chicago Daily News's John T. Whitaker stuck with his British friends. Downstairs in his pajamas came the hotel manager to try to make peace. He was knocked flat...
...dive-bombers, after separating so that they could descend from different angles, gunned their motors and, each in his turn, started down. From the ships below burst upwards an inverted torrent of anti-aircraft projectiles. . . . Within a few minutes, in Berlin, Hermann Göring was hurrying to tell Adolf Hitler about results which were later flashed to the world in these words...
...Sisters of the Good Shepherd (1796-1868), Gemma Galgani, Italian stigmatist and mystic (1878-1903). Thrice the cardinals begged the Pope to grant the canonization. Twice the Pope told all to pray for God's guidance. Third time he declared the petitions granted. Silver trumpets blew, the choir burst into a mighty Te Detim, and all the bells of Rome rang...