Word: impaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Masque of Venice. A brittle English comedy cracked into small and singularly uninteresting pieces under the impact of a maladroit company and production. So lethargic was the entertainment as thus presented that it is difficult to comment on the play. Probably, however, it was nothing much...
...Significance. This is no biography, no historical novel. It has no dates, no footnotes, no bibliography. It is a series of fierce impressions, summing into 150 small pages the impression of a man's life. It has terrific compression and impact. An example from the text...
...board the liner Paris in mid-ocean last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski was giving a concert while the ship bounced on the stormy sea like a pea on a reverberating drumhead. Waves pounded her forefoot with a sodden, heavy impact; the wind found a flute to blow in every cranny; passengers in the saloon struggled to keep their chairs from skidding together. Paderewski played on. Suddenly three great seas in succession struck the tottering vessel; she shivered, climbed a wave, and jerked to starboard with a lurch that spilled the gathering in the salon out of their seats. Ladies...
...daughter, at the request of cinema photographers and before the marveling gaze of 4,000 yokels admitted at 25 cents each, stood up on the wing of an airplane, leaped into space, curved down 40 feet to cleave the waters of the city lake. The force of the impact split her bathing...
...appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor whizzing into it at 40 mi. or so per second would not be retarded as it would be near earth, and burned to a "shooting star" and dust by atmospheric friction. At the moon, it flies on intact, strikes the moon with terrific impact. In a tenth of a second, the meteor is stopped, but it has penetrated two miles into the moon's stony crust. The friction of penetration heats the meteor to gaseous state, under such pressure that there is an instantaneous explosion "500 times as powerful as dynamite." After centuries...