Word: fusing
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...once teasing, gay, quizzical and tender; as he turned to take his medicine, his eyebrows rose with gratitude and the curtain fell. There are those plays so delicately, so truly funny that one forgets to laugh until a perhaps clumsy joke, inserted for no other purpose, ignites the fuse of amusement that a superlative dialog has laid. Caprice is such a play. "You are the most abandoned woman I have ever known," says Albert to lisa, and she replies, "Abandoned? No one has ever abandoned me!" It is a college quip which serves less as a cause than an excuse...
...field in the stadium. Psychopathology, because it is a new subject, and because it deals with the spirit of man in all its vigorous vagaries, progressive and regressive, and hence is the subject par excellence for the pre-occupation of man, has the necessary explosives for lighting the intellectual fuse in the minds of at least some undergraduates. No young man should go through college unburned. It does not make a great deal of difference what subject infects him first; he should be infected. He may then proceed on his own fuel. Once the taste of blood, always a hunter...
...done in three years, will double the astronomer's vision, quadruple the amount of light that at present can be caught from the stars. The great mirror, about 17 feet in diameter, is possible because Professor Elihu Thomson of the General Electric Co. has learned how to fuse quartz into great discs that will not crack, nor warp with heat...
...with three independent, competing systems, was not so well pleased. International Tel. and Tel. merged, this spring, with the telegraph and cable companies of Clarence Hungerford Mackay. But Radio Corporation of America, restrained by federal act, cannot fuse with cable companies, cannot merge with International Tel. and Tel. or with the mighty Western Union system. Divided, competitive, U. S. cable and radio chiefs wondered how they were to battle Britain, already ahead, for first place in the world of international communications...
...second night, just as the session was opening, the Smith radio went dead. A Klieg light used by camera men had burned out a house fuse. A butler and Son-in-Law Warner made repairs in time to pick up Permanent Chairman Robinson as he said that the roll of States would be called to name candidates for the Presidency...