Word: magnetized
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...machine, ions, akin to the particles shot forth by radium and other radioactive elements, are revolved around in a vacuum tank between the poles of a huge magnet at the speed of millions of miles an hour...
...spirals are controlled by big electromagnets. The bigger the magnets, the wider the spirals, the more forceful the bullets. Dr. Lawrence and his ever-changing army of co-workers did most of their work on artificial radioactivity and transmutation of elements with an 85-ton magnet. Now they have a 225-ton machine for applying the radioactivity of their cracked atoms (and the neutrons which cause it) to biological and medicinal research. This giant hurls tiny bullets with record-breaking energies of more than 30,000,000 electron-volts...
...That the reason German air raids have not been more successful is that Britain is using a secret magnetic device so strong that it jerks all steel parts out of approaching enemy planes, causing them to crumple and crash. The strongest magnet ever made will not pull tenpenny nails out of a board at a distance of one yard...
Last week Sonja Henie, vacationing in Norway, was still the most famous woman skater in the world. In competition no longer, at 29 she was a greater box-office name, a more compelling magnet for crowds than ever before. She was not only, in Sportswriter Joe Williams' words, "undoubtedly the biggest individual draw sports ever produced," but she was also Hollywood's third-ranking box-office star* with four phenomenally successful pictures behind her and another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates...
...magnet which can be clipped to a dress, to hold hairpins while arranging hair...