Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accomplishing one of the most outstanding feats of modern news reel photography. Paramount Sound News brings to the screen the complete record of the recent Hindenburg disaster. The film shows the giant dirigible slowly lowering over the field at Lakehurst when everything seemed to be in perfect order. The sudden mass of flames, which enveloped it spread over the entire area of the ship with incredible rapidity...
...year to the day after leaving Berlin on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic to the United States, the giant German "Hindenburg Zeppelin" crashed in flames as it was about to land at Lakehurst at 6:25 o'clock last night...
...m.p.h. up & down the lake, prudently keeping at least 100 yd. from shore. On the east shore, a large pudgy "footprint" was found. Scientists entering the discussion opined that it was: 1) an elephant seal that had slipped through the Caledonian Canal from the North Sea; 2) a giant squid; 3) a hippopotamus; 4) an acclimatized crocodile; 5) floating debris from a Wartime German blimp...
...sensational bridge between the living and the nonliving by crystallizing the virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease. Crystallization is a property of nonliving matter but when the virus was applied to the leaf it promptly acquired the ability to reproduce itself-a characteristic of life. The virus is a giant molecule weighing 17,000,000 times as much as a hydrogen atom. Dr. Stanley found the molecule to be spherical, with a diameter of .0000002 cm. When Dr. Langmuir made a monofilm of the virus and then transferred the film to a glass plate where its thickness could be measured...
...that anyone could see with the naked eye by adding acetic acid to a dilute solution of sodium silicate. After a while the solution became viscous and turned into a jelly. The molecules had combined to form bigger ones, the process speeding along in geometrical ratio until one super-giant molecule filled the entire container...