Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distance; the Corps just set it up to shoot at, expecting to break it as soon as the superfortress (150 ft. wingspread) is equipped with bigger engines. Two days prior, the same ship climbed to 8,200 feet with a 15½-ton payload (world's record). Smaller Boeing "fortresses" (YB-17s, 105 ft. wingspread), carrying five-ton loads, established new altitude (23,800 feet) and speed (205 m.p.h.) records for a 621-mile course. Another "fortress" climbed to 33,400 feet carrying five tons (world's record). In time for the party at Wright Field, a brand...
Purpose of Dr. Scarff's operation on Alice was to destroy the choroid plexus in her first two ventricles, thus diminishing the water supply to her brain. (The third and fourth ventricles are smaller, produce minute quantities of water.) First he made a one-inch slit on the top of her scalp, cut out a small plug of bone. Into the tiny hole he inserted his ventriculoscope...
...since the Hundred Days of 1933. Explosion after smoky explosion blew away Franklin Roosevelt's last vestige of control over both houses of Congress. When the week ended, the Democratic Party lay split asunder, with the larger half lying away from the President, coalesced with the Republicans, the smaller half crumbling toward him in frightened fragments...
...existence of animal life on Mars is anybody's guess. Mars is smaller, colder, drier than Earth, has a much thinner atmosphere. Adams and Dunham of Mt. Wilson have shown that the oxygen content of the Martian atmosphere must be less than 1% of the Earth's. Yet among different types of animal life on Earth there are enormous differences in the rate of oxygen intake, and it may be that animals on Mars have adapted themselves to the rare atmosphere by an ultra-slow rate of oxygen consumption. Such animals might be intelligent but they would also...
Moreover, while the external organs of stimulated rats grew larger, the sex glands themselves grew smaller...