Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were delayed in reaching the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford. The Prince was accordingly delayed in attending a banquet in his mother's honor. When he reached the banquet door it had been locked to keep out the curious and the guard professed to have no key. Prince Nicholas sought the main dining room, passed through the kitchen, emerged into the banquet hall...
...vacuum tube, made portable so that it could be attached to an exhaustion pump in any laboratory. Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing the main current. About this cathode was built another innovation in vacuum tubes, a metal cup designed to repel electrons backfiring against it and converge them forward in a narrow stream at greatly accelerated speed. This stream was pointed down the tube's other neck, a foot long, the sides...
...Freshman runners will encounter the Engineer first year team preliminary to the main event. The 1930 runners are expected to defeat M. I. T. with expected ease as a result of their one-sided triumph against Dartmouth last week...
...evidence. There is no phase of the Madeiros affidavit which he has not examined in this exhaustive decision. The fatal inconsistencies in the Madeiros story are pointed out. The details which Madeiros alleges are shown to be contradicted not only by his own evidence but by evidence in the main case which the defense did not question. After studying the Madeiros testimony for several weeks, and all the records in the trial, Judge Thayer is forced to the conclusion that the affidavit is "unreliable, untrustworthy and untrue," and that to set aside a verdict of a jury affirmed...
...Napoleon, as soon as he discovered the Austrian plan of attack, ordered his cavalry to cut in from the wings, attacking the on-coming column on both flanks. Then he ordered reserves to bolster up the centre. The result was that the cavalry cut the main body of the advancing column to pieces by their simultaneous flank attacks, while the reenforced centre bore the brunt of the Austrian 'spear-head...