Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vibrates in one plane only. Laymen understand polarization more readily if they imagine that a beam of light, vibrating in all directions, is a flight of straws blown along helter-skelter by the wind. If the straws collide with a picket fence, some will pass through if they happen to be aligned vertically with the gaps between the palings. Thus all the straws that get through will be parallel to one another...
...death-defying stunts, as the days of its parades down Main Street, are over. Both are now an unnecessary complication of an already complicated routine. Since Ringling's and Barnum & Bailey's have combined, such competitive stunts are no longer demanded. Fellows admits that accidents still happen under the big top, but on no such scale as in the dangerous days of looping automobiles and diving bicycles. Such ' hair-raising numbers as Clyde Beatty's animal-training act are not popular with all members of the audience, and present knotty transportation difficulties. But the elephants...
With his morning notes to prove that some of his dreams were really more or less accurate previsions of phenomena experienced later, Dunne began to think about the sort of world in which such things could happen. He adopted the deterministic universe cherished by many a philosopher and scientist from Plato to Einstein*;a universe in which Future and Past are both parts of a unified reality, and in which the distinction between them is a purely mental one. In the preoccupied waking state, reasoned Philosopher Dunne, the mind has no contact with the "future" in sleep, when it wanders...
...reminded of what he said, not about this bill but about all bills. He said: 'I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' That is the position I take about Mr. Green and I happen to agree with what he said...
...another man if I was French and tryed to hold my hand I got angry and Hit Him in the Face and quick as litning He hit me in the Face . . . that was my first fight, and the only ungentleman man I have meet in Turkey sorry it happen as I had been thinking all day if I had to give a prize to the most respectfully men it would go to the Turks, the other men felt so sad.") She turned her most dangerous mishap (a train wreck in Czechoslovakia in which 26 people were killed) into profit, when...