Word: emit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loughdowrough, England. It is made of bronze and bears the inscription. "In memory of the voices that are hushed," a large Harvard seal, and the year 1926. Designed with the end in view of reaching the Business School as well as the college, the new bell is said to emit an unusually penetrating notce, which can, and must, be heard even at a great distance...
many an ITEM of news, I therefore EMIT this anagram...
...shot into this a current of electrons from a hot filament similar to those used in a radio tube. The energy of this current was readily reckoned in volts, and as the voltage was increased things began to happen to the hydrogen atoms it encountered. Suddenly they began to emit radiation of a definite wavelength, measurable as a single line in a light spectrum. The hydrogen atoms had been excited, their electrons swinging out into wider, more madly rapid orbits. The voltage of the current was increased again, until a second line appeared in the spectrum, indicating that the hydrogen...
...EMIT He buys...
...shall define a triumph? The first night of Italian opera in London, Mme. Toti dal Monte swelled her ample bosom to emit the titular notes of Lucia di Lammermoor. Diffident boxes whacked their hands red. "A triumph," said the press next morning, meaning that Toti dal Monte had covered the work with her usual capability...