Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near the East River at 135th St. one morning last week told of seeing the 44-year-old excursion steamer Observation push off from her pier with the usual cargo of workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...
...Manhattan last week Subway Motorman Fred Floodgate had shut off his power and was coasting his northbound express into the West noth Street station when he caught a blurred glimpse of a slim, blonde woman poised on the edge of the platform. The next instant there was a downward flutter of a black-and-tan dress. Motorman Floodgate's hand stiffened on the emergency brake control. Clamped wheels shrieked. The train slid 50 ft. before stopping. Ten minutes later police gathered from the tracks the bloody remains of Elsie Green, 38. Her purse on the platform contained 55¢. A clerk...
...Chang's Peking-Mukden line pass under a bridge of the Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway. Workmen were seen working on the under side of that bridge during the night. The only place where a lookout could have hidden was inside a Japanese sentry box. At the very instant when Chang's private train passed under the bridge an electrically wired bomb dropped down on his private car, blew the Old Tiger out of all consideration. Young Chang, inheritor of his father's great domain, had neither the force nor the ability to handle it. The best...
...belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever, disengaged his plane-hook from the trapeze bar. At the same instant he gunned his motor, nosed his plane down in a power dive to clear the airship before an upward gust could possibly cause a foul. Then he headed for Lakehurst where another plane waited to fly Admiral Moffett to Washington...
...against a rising air current are likely to break up and take a positive charge. Reduced in size they are blown upward again, rising less rapidly than the negative air and spray. Their charge makes them coalesce again until they are large and heavy enough to hover for an instant, then begin to drop again. As the process continues, the raindrops become heavily loaded with positive electricity, while the rising air carries negative electricity to the top of the cloud. A lightning flash results...