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...leapt upon the turtle's back...
When Dr. Coolidge ordered his 350,000-volt current turned on, a prodigious stream of electrons leapt from the hot cathode, moving perhaps two miles per second. Rebounding from the metal cup about the cathode, they raced off down the 12-inch exit passage of the tube until, when they reached the "window," they were going some 150,000 m.p.s. (four-fifths the speed of light). Their volume was virtually undiminished as they shot through the thin nickel foil and out into heavy, molecular air, where their effects were at once visible and startling...
...handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like a wanton Ulysses, had left for other shores. In Laguna Vista, California, a delicious world began to unfold itself to Adrienne . . . bronzed turkeys leapt at pungent, low-hanging figs . . . bronzed Mammy chanted of great green forests with scarlet birds and swinging animals . . . enchanted cream-colored people looked down from gilded frames within the house. . . . Why were no bronzed people like Mammy pressed into frames? Adrienne knowns nothing of her parents. For many years...
Last week, had they been living, these poets might have leapt exuberantly, clapped hands on hearing the report of Charles H. Burke, Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the U. S. He announced that the redskin population is on the rise, that there are now 350,000 Indians in the U. S., an increase of 4½2% within the last decade. The Cherokee tribes of North Carolina, more prolific than the rest, have boosted their numbers 34% since...
...roar increased. Thousands of flaming lances stabbed the night horizontally, creating the halo of glowing purple known to electrical engineers as the "corona," a sign of wasting power. The crackle of sparks intensified, culminating in a fierce explosion, as a broad, jagged ribbon of blue-edged white flame leapt across the room from electrode to electrode. It was the hugest man-made spark in history and signified success in the testing of six new transformers, stepped up to 2,100,000 volts, with which Leland Stanford experts will study the loss of power in high voltage transmission; the nature...