Word: hellish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just prior to adjournment of the Disarmament Conference its President, famed "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, now a bitter foe of his onetime friend Prime Minister MacDonald, passionately denounced "the peddling of hellish instruments of murder" (i. e. armaments) in peace time by the Great Powers (see below...
...could peer, and so good was the insulation that he could put his eye within a few inches of the tube. Keeping the temperature at 3,000°-600° below the vaporization point of graphite-Engineer Chesnut could drop objects through the tube, watch what happened in the hellish interior. Wood was instantly reduced to vapor, burning as a sudden jet of gas. Rocks quickly became vaporized, silicon and magnesium gases shot out into the air burning with a white flame. The furnace was kept at 3,000° for more than five hours. Iron...
...Annette Sirs: Your word picture of Bermuda-great! One mistake though-Annette Kellerman didn't give any exhibition in Prospero's Cave, at least no swimming or diving exhibition. The place is called "Devil's Hole" by both tourists and natives. A hellish name, if you ask me. Anyway, the "Hole" is populated with a specimen of every fish found in the surrounding waters from turtles to octopi. "Old Joe," the keeper, secretly told me, as he told every other tourist that ever visited the place, "Annette Kellerman had some movin' pitchers tooken...