Word: origination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atoms are transmuted when struck by the high-speed atomic particles or ions. The cyclotron affords a method of achieving these high speeds through a combination of electric and magnetic forces acting on the ions which have their origin at the center of a large vacuum chamber. These forces cause the atomic particles to travel in a spiral, receiving a "push" of many thousand volts at each half revolution...
...most remarkable epochs in our history (October, 1641). From that day dates the corporate existence of the two great parties which have ever since alternately governed the country. In one sense, indeed, the distinction which then became obvious had always existed, and always must exist. For it has its origin in diversities of temper, of understanding, and of interest, which are found in all societies, and which will be found till the human mind ceases to be drawn in opposite directions by the charm of habit, and by the charm of novelty. Not only in politics, but in literature...
Director Arnold Lucius Gesell of Yale's famed Clinic of Child Development, writing in Scientific Monthly for December, gave Darwin credit for these experiments, because, in trying to bolster up his theory of man's lowly origin, Darwin gave a tremendous push to the infant science of infant behavior. Still a source book for child psychologists is Darwin's A Biographic Sketch of an Infant, published...
...Being of Rumanian origin, I appreciate the good words you had to say about the statesmanship of King Carol and of the improvements which he is accomplishing in Rumania...
...Germany's ruthless new Minenkrieg (mine warfare)? Mr. Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic back half-throttled, had started kicking below the belt. "As a measure of justified reprisal" for "this fresh outrage," Germany should be throttled entirely. She should be cut off from her export markets, from which she derives foreign exchange to buy war sinews...