Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publication of the code brought a new shower of protests. The mail order houses abruptly reversed their position when they discovered that NRA economists had changed "invoice price" to "wholesale price." That would mean that Sears, Roebuck or Montgomery, Ward would not get the full benefit of their huge-scale buying. When "invoice price" was reinstated and the rest of the section simplified, they fell back into rank-but grumbling that the whole thing was unworkable...
...straight-forward masculinity is unrestrained by wing collar or the stare of social dictators. Chester Morris is the prodigal who leaves the farm and "cleans up" in the Chicago Wheat Pit. He does this by the simple expedient of dressing up in rubber coat and hat, walking under a shower bath, and stampeding the Pit by crying. "Rain, rain," thus forcing down the price about ten cents and crowning his bear operations with success. This is accomplished before anyone has the presence of mind to look out the window...
...from earth's radioactive substances. It seemed to Professor Rossi that in darting through sheets of metal the primary cosmic rays gave birth to a secondary radiation of electric particles. Two other physicists got on the scent, found that the secondary particles were generated in the form of showers-like spray from the splash of passing cosmic rays. Then Professor Rossi hooked up a new arrangement of coincidence counters, made further discoveries about the spray, which last week he reported. Coincidence counters are multiple arrangements of individual counting-tubes. Arranging three tubes in the form of a triangle, Professor...
stars, less than 10 light years away from the earth (a light year is about 6,000,000,000 miles), illuminates the Century of Progress Exhibition each evening. An automatic lecture on the Perseoid meteor shower which can be seen every August when the earth passes through the certain point in her orbit, will follow later in the evening. The meteors are called Perseoids, because they appear to come from the direction of the constellation, Perseus, which forms with Andromeda, an over lasting dramatic picture in the skies. In November, the earth passes through another belt and is bombarded...
Blinding javelins of lightning encircled the colossal pile, and after each succeeding shower there was blinding darkness all around. Rain washed the wide expanse of windows intermittently and the wind in the chimneys moaned and shrilled like some dying titan. It was a fit night for ghoulish purposes, unthinkable horrors that drive the possessor slowly mad. In the cavernous vault the noise of thunder rolled and broke with the insistence of throbbing tom-toms. Somewhere out over the plain of roofs gleaming with water and the trees that tossed their branches in a spasm of agony as if to relieve...