Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge makes them coalesce again until they are large and heavy enough to hover for an instant, then begin to drop again. As the process continues, the raindrops become heavily loaded with positive electricity, while the rising air carries negative electricity to the top of the cloud. A lightning flash results...
...stage is an African jungle. Spears flash through the murk, an elephant trumpets. Tom-tom-tom goes the tom-tom. The Voodoo Man warns his people, "All the gods are angry, all the clouds hang low." There must be human sacrifice. The Girl is chosen. As she walks into the stream to drown, the Boy creeps to the bank, plays on his flute. The Voodoo Man has him dragged away. A sacrificial procession. Tom-tom-tom. The Boy struggles in his bonds, the Voodoo Man leaps at him knife in hand. Comes a slave caravan, the Boy & Girl are chained...
Cathode Ray Tube Analyzer. To understand the manufacturing possibilities of some materials, x-ray spectra are useful. Analysts get the spectra by striking the material with cathode rays until x-rays flash off. If the material can be put in a vacuum tube the process is comparatively easy. Otherwise the cathode rays must be shot out of the vacuum tube through a very thin metal window into the open air, and then upon material to be examined. This is exceedingly difficult to accomplish. Air tends to dissipate and absorb cathode rays before they can strike x-rays from anything...
...flight he took the Navy's proud U. S. S. Akron with her crew of 82 from Sunnyvale, Calif, to Parris Island, S. C. (U. S. Marine Corps air station) for refuelling, thence to her home base at Lakehurst, N. J. An able writer, Commander Rosendahl found time to flash radio messages of more than routine value. Excerpts...
...Strawn. Mr. Strawn's law partner Ralph Shaw had as his house guest New York's one-time Senator James Wadsworth. The name of Wadworth, too, was to be put before the convention for Vice Presidential consideration. There was also the chance that Vice Presidential lightning might flash over the Philippines and hit Theodore Roosevelt in Manila. It might also nip Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley as he sat in seclusion in Chicago and framed the river & harbor development plan for his party's platform...