Word: giant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's Hanging Committee, who tried hard to remain anonymous, were Dame Laura Knight's husband, Professor Harold Knight, who accepted three of his own portraits, including one of Laurence Olivier as Romeo; Sculptor Sir William Reid Dick, who accepted a model of his own giant statue of the Earl of Willingdon; Alfred J. Munnings, who accepted his own portrait of the Master of the Essex Union and five others. Their only pay for their three-month job was a daily lunch at Burlington House. Academicians were permitted to submit six pictures, outsiders three...
During the course of construction on a giant dam, a negro laborer, through causes over which he had obviously little control, plunged from the scaffolding, and whirled to his death on the rocks about a hundred feet below. Our friend from Tech ran to report the accident to the foreman, a Dixitie of the old school, who appeared vaguely ruffled by the news. He turned to his assistant and drawlel wearily, "Dama it all, Oscar, go ahead and get us another...
...surface a giant clamshell crane, dynamite, a steam shovel, squads of digging miners, burrowed from four different angles on the thin chance that the trapped men might still live. A pipe was forced into the mine tomb and, six days after the cave-in, Dr. Robertson's voice cried faintly, "Hello. We are all right." All, however, were suffering from shock, starvation, exposure. Brandy, chocolate, soup, Bi-so-dol, oilskins, flashlights and candles were dropped down the 5-in. pipe. Then a new menace appeared when water began flooding the wrecked mine. With freedom or drowning a matter...
Rubber, silk, cellulose and certain other organic compounds contain "giant molecules" weighing hundreds of thousands and even millions of times as much as the hydrogen atom. The rayon industry (which last year produced more than 256,000,000 lb. of fabrics, employed 60,000 workers and paid them $60,000,000) is currently profiting by a clearer understanding of these mammoth particles. It has been found that cellulose molecules in cotton are chains of 3,500 links. Such long molecules could be seen under the microscope if they were fat enough. The new artificial fibre is built on the same...
...Some "giant molecules" of organic tissue are so long that, although their net charge is zero or nearly zero, the positive charge is concentrated at one end, the negative at the other end. The distance between them is a factor in the dipole moment, which is, roughly speaking, a measure of electric leverage. Dr. Cohn measured the charges and the dipole moments by observing molecular behavior under a bombardment of radio waves. If some stimulus discharged the positive tension at one end, the negative charge would redistribute itself, affecting other molecules. If these molecules twitched in response to the charge...