Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy to blow a soap bubble," said the voice, "but far less easy to keep it in existence more than a minute or two-after that it is apt to disappear. If hope I shall not startle you too much if I say . . . that the universe is like that . . . expanding-I might almost say exploding-at a terrific rate. The results of measuring the speeds of nebulae were sensational. The last to be investigated was found to be receding from us at a rate of 26,000,000 miles per hour. . . . The material universe appears to be passing away like...
...normal breathing, carbon dioxide taken into the lungs from the blood helps (via the brain) to stimulate the lungs to expand and contract. Based on this physiological fact is the principle of giving cases of electrical shock, and now (experimentally) pneumonia cases, a little lung-stimulating carbon dioxide with the excess of pure oxygen for the blood...
...recent lecture Dimnet characterized Mussolini as the Napoleonic type and branded him as dangerous. He sees war impending between France and Italy. "Mussolini," he says, "is eager to expand Italy in order to get colonies. I look for a war with Italy in two years. Had Italy the finances now. Mussolini would bring about...
...novel they were neat carvings on a walnut shell. In the play they are thinned and twisted into a helter-skelter, rag-rug pattern. Mr. Stallings is not to be censured for what he has done in all force and sincerity. But it takes more than force to expand a small frieze and keep it significant...
...relativity theory that light from large bodies would show a shift toward the long end of the spectrum, that this shift did not mean a real movement away from earth. Willem De Sitter, on the contrary, claimed it as evidence that matter is constantly tending to scatter, expand the limits of the universe...