Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati on December 22, the program will be given in the form of a Pop concert, at which favors will be distributed. The next night, in Odoen Hall in St. Louis the Instrumental Clubs will give a joint concert with the Yale Glee Club and December 24 will perform at Nashville. Tennessee. Christmas day will be spent en route from Nashville to Atlanta, Georgia, for a concert there on December...
...they are all the same size no matter what the element) revolve around their nucleus in a symmetrical pattern. Hydrogen, lightest of elements, has only one electron whirling around its nuclear "sun." Heavy metals, like lead, radium and uranium, have many electrons. In some elements some of the electrons pop away from their atoms. Such elements are radioactive. X-rays can make them pop away violently. When x-rays act so, Professor Compton learned, their wave lengths, thousand millionths of an inch long, change. Roughly, the picture is that of a rowdy butting people on a dance floor. Each time...
...California, the Pacific Coast Conference worked for the glory of Far West. "Pop" Warner called his Leland Stanford hopefuls together around a blackboard to instill the rudiments of theoretical strategy. Scouts scattered to spy upon opposing teams. The Pacific Conference recognizes scouting, favors it; arguing that the Eastern attitude is silly since loyal graduates will scout opponents surreptitiously despite rules...
...Displayed at the No-Jury Exhibition (Marshall Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of 480 others for special praise and reproduction by the Art World of Chicago. Wrote Lena McCauley, art critic of the Chicago Evening Post: "It is a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy with...
Clouds and fog thwarted observers in many places, but not in Giggleswick, England (pop. 950), whither gathered 70,000 and Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal. Shortly before the time that the eclipse was due-which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern...