Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belligerent rights" now being hashed over in London (see col. 1), was reported last week planning to establish a naval blockade of the Leftist coast, appointed Vice Admiral Francisco Moreno Fernández to be Commander in Chief of Rightist naval forces in Majorca. This made correspondents unquenchably curious to visit the island of Majorca, often rumored to be in Italian hands...
Other manuscript treasures include depictions of the battles and adventures of the here Rustam; curious drawings of early automatic inventions; scenes from daily life and portraits...
...started last year, when Assistant Coach Bill Neufeld was having lunch with Doctor Book of the Hygiene Department, and Harvard Physicist Victor Guilleman. Neufeld was curious as to whether or not there might be some scientific device with which to determine the proper warm up for a given man for a given man for a given distames...
...sunny campus and the ramshackle old building in which he was working, traveled eastward across the U. S. and across the Atlantic to attend a European scientific conference in Brussels. He was the only U. S. scientist invited. He had invented and was already making formidable use of a curious and powerful atomic weapon-a "cyclotron" that imparted great speeds to projectiles for smashing atoms by whirling them around in a strong magnetic field...
...Then, I imagined the quarter-inch insect expanding to my size, with everything around it enlarging in proportion. It was a curious sensation-like breathing in and out-this contracting and expanding viewpoint. The six-foot ladybug, I perceived, would live in a world where grassblades would be as wide as a highway and would tower hundreds of feet in the air. Crickets twenty-four feet long would crawl through the grassroot jungles. Moths, with wings stretching more than 100 feet from tip to tip, would soar through the air at dusk. Bushes would have the appearance of frowning cliffs...