Word: pinheads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days after alighting on Hawaiian grass, the four of the Southern Cross planned to do something that no man had ever before attempted: a 3,138-mile flight entirely over water, aiming at a pinhead in the Pacific called Suva in the Fiji Islands. The 850 inhabitants of Suva were atwitter with anticipation; the municipal council gave orders to cut down trees and remove electric wires in Albert Park, so as to make a landing field for the Southern Cross...
...Bodenheimer of the Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures in the bark, made by plant lice. The Hebrew University men, closer...
...Francisque Sarcey and M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, one-time (1879-1887) President of the Republic. To attract entrants for this year's contest, the promoters made public speeches praising Aesop, Cicero, Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked taxi-drivers; a carp-eyed spinster with a goitre like a wasp's nest...
Scattered in heaps within the skeleton's ribs, arranged in lines beneath the thorax and shoulders as though dropped from decayed strings, lay quarts and quarts of finest pierced pearls, from pinhead size to hickory-nut. There were necklaces of grizzly bears' teeth, the largest ever found, strung with buttons of copper and silver. There were tortoise shell fragments and a swan cut in tortoise shell and effigy pipes-one, in the image of a standing wolf, beautifully cut; another, a foot in length and highly polished, showing a bear. There were cloths, folded beneath the grisly...
...cover the earth with a foot of water." Yet, "if we made ,one of these hydrogen atoms, which we used to think of as hard and indivisible, so large that it became a yard in diameter, nothing would yet be appreciable, because its electron would still be only a pinhead in size and its nucleus 2,000 times smaller. So while you might distinguish the orbit, its planet [electron] and sun [nucleus] would still be nearly invisible. In other words, practically all of the hydrogen atom is apparently space . ." .as empty as the sky, almost as empty as a perfect...