Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harbor of Montreal there was great bustle last week, and a flow of more real French than usual. Eight out of ten natives of Quebec Province and of Montreal speak a provincial French patois, su perficially proud that their French forefathers established the white race's dominion over Canada. But last week, straight from modern France, the null sloop Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate...
...rays bounced off the collection of atoms which were the crystal. They rebounded in a peculiar way. The more glancing their blow at the crystal, the longer the x-rays became. That indicated that x-rays were pellets moving with stupendous rapidity. They were like a swift flow of cue balls glancing off the triangle of balls. For his experiments Professor Compton won a 1927 Nobel Prize...
...lifting power increases when the dirigible comes to rest because the absence of a cooling flow of wind (from the ship's motion) allows the gas to expand...
Made minutes less steadily flow...
This was obtained at a wharf in one of the small creeks which flow into Delaware Bay, being the last village (one store and house at the wharf) on this creek beyond and all around are vast meadows (salt meadows) where many muskrats live and a great many are trapped up in this section...