Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speculation in Florida real estate is nationwide, and very wild; sporadic outbreaks of the same fever are, however, to be seen in many other sections of the country on a smaller scale. The collapse of Los Angeles real estate speculation is forgotten...
During recent months, domestic consumption of copper has run about 65,000 tons a month; while the electrical industry has been taking less than previously, car-makers and railroads have been buying more. Moreover, the export demand for copper has considerably improved, especially from Germany and to a smaller extent from Britain, Belgium, Italy...
...village of Ivankovo in the Province of Kostroma was small, smaller than its sometimes crowded street would make it appear; for if the truth were known, the inhabitants, numbering perhaps 50, lived in but 14 houses...
...made ,one of these hydrogen atoms, which we used to think of as hard and indivisible, so large that it became a yard in diameter, nothing would yet be appreciable, because its electron would still be only a pinhead in size and its nucleus 2,000 times smaller. So while you might distinguish the orbit, its planet [electron] and sun [nucleus] would still be nearly invisible. In other words, practically all of the hydrogen atom is apparently space . ." .as empty as the sky, almost as empty as a perfect vacuum. . . . Atoms begin to look like solar and planetary systems with...
...there were. Not far off, the heavy swells, uprearing to heaven, toppled forward in streaming white tumult and stretched away into a flat boil, as smaller waves will over a jutting reef or sand...