Word: emits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until Columbia University's trustees began to consume a Manhattan banquet last week, they scrupulously refused to emit the names of those to whom they had decided to award the annual Pulitzer Prizes lor Journalism and for belles-lettres...
...conducted with the ceremony and pageantry of an English Coronation. The great Princes Tokugawa and Yamagata- names ringing in Japanese ears like Gladstone and Wellington-were in attendance with Princes of the Blood and members of the Imperial Family. The appropriate choral performers and their leader, all schooled to emit the 31 syllables of the incredibly stylized tanka in exactly so many breaths, were at hand...
...gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano Agnes Davis emit a wailing postlude. Strapping young Agnes Davis, who has made her mark at Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, was supposed to be a Countess Geschwitz, as bewitched by Lulu as were the many men who loved her. The whole story seemed revolting in its episodic outline. But Berg's music...
...Paris last year the Curie-Joliots were firing alpha particles at another light element-boron. Neutrons leaped out. But after the bombardment stopped, the boron continued to emit positive electrons as though the attack had stirred it into a sort of radioactivity. This unlooked-for discovery made necessary a new phrase: artificial radioactivity (TIME...
...last week, Mrs. Henry Bennett found an egg imprinted with the phrase: "Here my word 35." Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett: "The egg was put here for some good reason. Why it was sent...