Word: fed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California Institute of Technology. With him went two brilliant young colleagues: Physicists Henry Victor Neher and William Hayward Pickering. For 18 years Dr. Millikan has carted his balloons through the snowy ranges of the Andes and Rockies, has plunged his flat, metal electroscopes 280 feet into snow-fed California lakes, to measure minute amounts of electricity which may penetrate their surfaces. Purpose of his travels: to learn something about the mysterious cosmic rays which seem to speed from interstellar space, and constantly bombard the earth...
...badly fed and all but naked. . . . Before you are great cities and rich provinces; there we shall find honor, glory and riches." Thus spoke young General Bonaparte to 30,000 miserable French troops at Nice one day in March 1796. The shoeless Army with half-starved horses drawing the scant artillery marched past the Alps, through Piedmont, and onto the lush plains of Lombardy. An unbroken series of victories-Lodi, Arcola, Rivoli-and Northern Italy was Napoleon's first conquest...
...ejector flung out a grapnel. It hooked around the Caribou's line, skidded along to the tip, locked fast with a corresponding gripper. With the electric potentials of both planes equalized to prevent static sparks, the tanker's crew joined a pipe line to the grapnel, fed it back to the Caribou to be coupled with her gas tank valves. While the two planes soared out over Foynes at 120 m.p.h., the tanker flushed the pipe line with nitrogen (to remove air, which, in combination with gasoline, might explode), pumped after it 800 gals. of fuel. Seventeen minutes...
...eyelids, burns out the vision of thousands of peasants in Asia, Southeastern Europe, South America. At the Berkeley, Calif, meeting of the Sixth Pacific Science Congress, Dr. Phillips Thygeson, of Manhattan's famed Presbyterian Hospital, announced that sulfanilamide was an effective treatment for trachoma. When Dr. Thygeson fed Sulfanilamide tablets to two large groups of patients, he "obtained healing or striking improvement in a high proportion of cases." In those cases which were far advanced, however, Sulfanilamide did not restore vision...
...explosion that destroyed the check room, burst suitcases and trunks, bowled over scores of passersby, stripped the clothes from two women. As the clouds of choking, acrid smoke rolled away Donald Campbell, both legs blown off, lay dying. Sprawled around him, 15 wounded men and women, including his bride, fed the bloody pools gathering on the cobblestones...