Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degrees Centigrade, thereby dissociating it into atomic hydrogen, and shot into this a current of electrons from a hot filament similar to those used in a radio tube. The energy of this current was readily reckoned in volts, and as the voltage was increased things began to happen to the hydrogen atoms it encountered. Suddenly they began to emit radiation of a definite wavelength, measurable as a single line in a light spectrum. The hydrogen atoms had been excited, their electrons swinging out into wider, more madly rapid orbits. The voltage of the current was increased again, until a second...
Loew's State--"Cobra" with Rudolph Valentino: If you happen to know who that number three was in last week's film, we'll give you a ride in the sedan...
...that we are an emotional people here in the United States, as emotional as they were in France a hundred years ago, as emotional as they are everywhere else; and unless in some way you cut down these tremendous estates, the greatest the world has ever known . . . something may happen in the future in this country of ours...
People who do not happen to be numbered among the "400,000 other men and women who have taken the health examinations" have often wondered just what sort of organization this Institute is, and how it is regarded by conservative, practising physicians. Last week Dr. Morris Fishbein, Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association curtly described it as "a middleman, which deals with the patient, collects the fee, and then doles out to the physician what is conceived to be an adequate share." He said...
DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S Zoo-Hugh Lofting - Stokes ($2.50). The now famous Doctor (he is appearing in the fifth book of his series) brings together a marvelous zoo in which many exciting things happen. Illustrated...