Word: collisional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much merriment was caused by the way the racers flew! However, there is some explanation for wandering in the fact that none of the contestants (I believe) had ever been over the course before. A collision between two planes in the early afternoon was due in part, according to some...
In London 31 people were hurt and Engineer James Carr killed in a head-on collision between two trains on a public park railway. The gauge of the one-mile track is only 20 in., maximum possible speed 12 m. p. h.
Ten hours later the Empress of Britain was in exciting collision with the Briarwood, freighter, but no great damage was done and the Empress docked at Quebec only eleven hours late. Right royally welcomed and lustily cheered the Delegations entrained for Ottawa.
"The effect on the Earth of a collision with a comet of any size would be negligible, except for possible extensive damage over limited areas," said Dr. S. L. Whipple, Astronomer and supervisor of photography at the Harvard College Observatory, in an interview yesterday.
"The 'glow' of a falling meteorite is not the result of combustion but of the extreme heat generated during the dissipation of its molecules by swift collision with those of the air. Small deposits of various metals are often found on sandy ocean beds, and it has been conclusively shown...