Word: rapidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meteors, literally "things in the air," refer specifically to luminous bodies known as shooting stars, falling stars, fireballs, bolides. Traveling rapidly through the air, they generate intense frictional heat which burns up most of their material substance. Thus, they become "balls" of fiery gases and small particles of carbon, magnesium, sodium, etc. The explosion of a meteor is due to its rapid combustion in the dense atmosphere near the earth. It is estimated that some 20,000,000 meteors, which would be visible to the naked eye in the absence of sunlight, moonlight or clouds, enter the atmosphere every...
There follow in rapid succession the Vale of Tempe, the summit of Parnassus, scaling the Acropolis at midnight, wooing the Maidens of the Porch by Attic moonlight, swimming the Hellespont, climbing Stromboli and Vesuvius, trying to swim from whirling Charybdis to rocky Scylla, singing "Funiculi, Funicula" in the Blue Grotto to an English girl with an Alice-blue Rolls-Royce, climbing Aetna, playing Ulysses ("handsome, heaven-sent Greek") to a 65-year-old bobbed grandmother's Calypso, and reading "The Return of Ulysses" at Ithaca, having completed what was begun, a trip in the wandering wake of Ulysses doing...
...Pictures share equally with the writing in story-telling importance. Artist Thomason draws as he writes except that he does it a little better. In sketches full of rapid motion his pen achieves subtleties which his typewriter is too unwieldy to reproduce. The current Cosmopolitan Magazine introduces him as a full-fledged professional illustrator of other people's stories...
...Last year MacDonald, who was a member of the 1924 Olympic team, competed only in the 440 on the Harvard Stadium cinders, but has been showing more power in the shorter event this year. Penn's other hope in the 220 is Warren Tuxill, a Sophomore, who has shown rapid progress in successive starts this spring. He enters the meet this week still untried in big competition and may provide a surprise in the dash predictions. Tuxill was one of the members of the Red and Blue 140 yard relay team which, with Scull running as anchor man, equalled...
...Leander" and this, aided by the antics of the juvenile loads, manages to inject a great deal of life into the second act. But not even "Leander" can quite compensate for some turgid emotionalizing on the part of the plump and mature prima donna who by dint of some rapid fire acrobatics falls swooning into the hero's arms just as the curtain is lowered on polite but not too frenzied applause. And the hero--well, the hero is handicapped by the royal trousers, which were built for style, not speed...