Word: ribboned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After being the guest of honor at a royal Christmas dinner in the Wonderland of Leverett House, the sacred and revered silver rabbit with his red ribbon vanished completely. What hare-brained knave committed the theft or what his motives were in taking the stuffed specimen of "lepus timidus," who with his younger brothers decorates the coat of arms of the house of Leverett, is a mystery which even the Red Queen would not be able to solve...
Following this sudden appearance everything was done to make the rabbit feel at home in its own house. It donned the red silk ribbon offered by members of the House, and with the contented smile of a Chinese idol took its place on the "End" table in the middle of the dining room, and there remained till it was missed on Wednesday night...
...gammas, the latter helpful in cancer). Artificial streams of alpha particles have been produced from vacuum tubes carrying as high as 650,000 volts. But the production of such voltages is expensive. 'The significance of Dr. Van de Graaff's purchase at the 5f/ & 10^ store ribbon counter was that he had discovered how to produce a current of electricity with light-ning-like force at a cost (for a small 1,500,000-volt machine...
...cheap silk ribbon is used as conveyor belts from two small electric generators to two 2-ft. copper spheres mounted on glass rods. The ribbons pass into the spheres through slits and over pulleys on cams within the spheres. At the generators, from copper brushes, the ribbons pick up small charges of electricity, one ribbon positive, the other negative. Entering the copper balls, the electric charges are taken from the ribbon (silk is a less good conductor than copper) and stored on the balls' copper surfaces. Large voltages accumulate quickly as the ribbons whiz through their slits, silent...
...Graaff turned up the lights and smiled into a circle of marveling faces. A few nights later he was to demonstrate his $90 lightning to the American Institute of Physics in Manhattan. After that he was to build a bigger, 10,000,000-volt model of his ribbon-&-copperball generator at M. I. T. He believes 50,000,000 volts may be possible...