Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensational Press. The cry of modern world-enders is that if anyone ever succeeds in exploding one atom of Matter, the whole universe will go off like a bunch of firecrackers. Last week, when Hearst newsmen discovered that two brave young German scientists plan shortly to try to crack an atom and convert it into radiation, the doomsday story was given another twirl. "A colossal catastrophe might ensue," declared the New York American. "Will this planet, twirling peacefully a million years,* be blown to smithereens...
...Last week Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks flew it in 55 min., a record. Fastest train time is made by New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad's Yankee Clipper. 4 hr. 45 min.; fare $12.26. Other crack trains: Knickerbocker Limited, Merchants Limited; Pennsylvania Railroad's Senator, Colonial express...
Along a take-off level notched into the side of an Alpine peak near the Engadine Valley, Chiogna, crack skiman of Switzerland, moved out onto the run. It dropped away under his feet so sharply that watchers behind him could not see the whole course; part of it seemed almost perpendicular. On the run the packed icy snow had just enough surface to give Chiogna steering purchase as he shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long...
...been on loan to the British Museum since 1810.* It is a blue glass Roman vase of the First Century on which were imposed beautifully carved opaque white figures. When discovered in 1550, the Portland Vase was that ultra rarity among classical antiques, a perfect piece, without a crack. In 1845 a wild-eyed individual, one William Lloyd, suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, smashed it in a hundred pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again...
...such craft banked it too low, side slipped it into a heap of wreckage. Then it was that Senor de la Cierva determined that aviation would need a ship that could be flown slow as well as fast, low as well as high, in safety. In all the crack-ups that attended experimentation - and they were not numerous - no one was seriously hurt, not even before de la Cierva learned how to build a rotor that would not fly itself to pieces. Promoter. In sharp contrast to the flamboyant, drum-beating promoter who caused the disastrous aviation "boom" of three...