Word: impacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other words shrapnel does not splinter. High explosive shell (termed simply H. E.) is what splinters on impact and causes splinters to fly in every direction. Present war tendencies favor H. E. shell over shrapnel, which is effective only against animals and personnel in the open. Shrapnel bursting charge blows the soft brass fuse from the head of the case and sprays the balls in an elliptical pattern over cone-shaped paths...
...resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., is about five times stronger than plate glass, can be bent or twisted 20° out of its plane, is unharmed by sudden temperature shifts, and when finally shattered by a severe impact does not fly into jagged slivers but crumbles harmlessly into small bits...
Jimmy Northmore called his apparatus "The Magic Eye." First shots published by the Times were of Baseballer Jimmy Foxx striking out. Northmore snapped a series of Golfer Al Watrous getting out of a sand trap, the prints plainly showing the clubhead traveling ahead of the ball after the impact. Last fortnight at University of Detroit Stadium his "Magic Eye" followed Pole-Vaulter Walter Simmons over the bar (see cut). Last week the Times played up his shots of Socialite Mary Mitchell playing tennis, lions brawling in the Detroit...
...Omaha, Neb., suing for divorce, Mrs. Viola Beck testified that her husband knocked her out by hitting her on the head with a live chicken. When he found that the impact had killed the chicken, he revived Mrs. Beck and ordered her to cook it. She refused...
...Einstein described the impact of Nazidom upon self-deceiving Jews thus: "A single political upheaval was sufficient to destroy all their illusions. In a single moment they lost all those insecure possessions whose acquisition was bought at the sacrifice of their inner dignity and their traditional historical individuality...