Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since then, Germany's Olympic Committee has spent 3,000,000 marks ($1,200,000) building headquarters for officials, a mile bobsled run, an artificial ice rink, a huge ski stadium, a ski jump so tall it makes the town's old one look like a mink-slide. All these preparations were keyed to the widespread German belief that the 11th Olympiad, which reaches its climax next summer in Berlin, was to be a rare chance to win back some of the international goodwill lost during three years of Naziism. The whole country had been carefully primed...
...skiers turn to Red Wing. Your ski article [TIME, Jan. 13] was much like a production of Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Red Wing has the oldest ski club in the V. S., the oldest skier in the U. S., the best natural ski slide in America, several former national champions and thousands of loyal Norse citizens who would rather ski than eat lutefisk. J. R. P. KERNAN
...inward across the roof of the mouth until they meet at a point midway between the molars. This cutting makes three gores in the roof of the mouth. With a blunt knife Dr. Vaughan separates the two rear gores from the palatine bone. This allows him to slide the soft palate, to which they are attached, backward to the rear wall of the throat. The loose flaps of membrane he then stitches to new positions on the palatine bone. By the time they grow onto the bone and new membrane grows over the bared portions of the bone, the soft...
...able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass sheet. Pellets from detonators, directed into jars of water, shatter the jars by the pressure wave in the water. As evidence that modern high explosives are not to be tampered with, Dr. Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins exhibited a lantern slide depicting the impression of an apple leaf driven into solid steel by guncotton, declared the detonation in a tube of nitroglycerin proceeds at four mi. per sec., described a new explosive, iodide of nitrogen, which is so skittish that the landing of a housefly sets...
From the shoulders of these two finds, atomic destruction and transmutation took fresh impetus the world over. Unencumbered by electric charges, neutrons as atom-wreckers are like wrestlers slippery with oil. They slide through the electronic field guarding the nucleus, do not swerve until they strike the hard core. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who has an 85-ton magnet to play with on the University of California campus, produced a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second by smashing lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma...