Word: emit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They also found that often when the stroke comes from above, the presence of the charge in the air creates by induction an opposite charge in the target, and before the leader completes its course the target may emit upward streamers to meet the leader and guide it home...
...forcibly throw us in the Bastille to think about the error of our ways. Every time I hear one of our self-appointed American Legion guardians of Americanism bragging about the organization's efforts in that direction, I ponder on these things, and am impelled to mentally emit a Bronx Cheer...
...hour. Ordinary electrodes are pasted on the top, front, and back of the patient's head, while "indifferent" electrodes are connected to his ear lobes. He then lies down, shuts his eyes, thinks about anything, and "lets his brain rattle," Mrs. Davis says. A wide ticker proceeds to emit from an enormous machine, and this ticker contains the brain waves...
...began to unfurl from the spadix and spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...
Fever therapists are waiting for some industrial physicist to build a tiny radio tube which will emit a wave eight-tenths of a meter (31.2 in.) long at a frequency of 320 million cycles per second. Such radiation would heat only the patient's blood and not affect flesh or bone...