Word: impaction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moving Pictures. Photographs at the rate of 300,000 a minute?31 times as fast as those taken by the slow-motion camera?are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...
MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY-Mrs. Fiske proving conclusively that when a great actress meets a good play the impact is supremely entertaining...
...spectacular "Bamboula" dance,--"a hula from Honolulu,--by way of Spain,"--she demonstrates her versatility once again. Johnny Dooley is sure of causing a laugh each time he appears on the stage; one marvels that he can survive the nightly administration of blows and kicks, the impact of bricks and violins on his head, and the incredible falls he takes, without going to the hospital. Helen Broderick is an excellent comedienne in all the different roles she is called on to play; William Kent is likewise a most amusing and agreeable laugh-producer. Lester Crawford, Cliften Webb, Edith Hallor...
...recent gay marriage legislation debate, members discussed the merits of supporting proposals which do not directly affect students. The merits of the bill aside, this resolution clearly has an important impact on the lives of a significant population of Harvard students...
...sense. Although I am very much in favor of human rights around the world, I can see how some might argue that resolutions to free activists in Burma are outside the range of reasonable council activities. But gay rights legislation in the United States clearly has a direct impact on Harvard students. DAVID B. ORR '01 MARCH...