Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find out whether the mesotrons are formed merely by the explosion of the original proton or are formed from earthly atoms by collision. This would throw light on the basic question: what does it take to break up a proton-i.e., how much energy is needed to smash an atom...
...climbed into the bombardier's seat of a big R.A.F. plane. Over Nazi supply trains at Sofia, Bulgaria he let a stick of bombs go. Nick's dark eyebrows still twitched with excitement when he got back to Greece. "The train went up with a tremendous smash," he said...
...play itself was an off tackle smash through the right side of the line. Right guard Sid Smith and blocking back Swede Anderson then did a superb job of belting Brown's left tackle, Don Corzine, who had substituted for Fidler...
...child into a clearing in a "new, strange wood." There he saw "beautiful bright-plumaged roosters ... as tall as houses . . . their legs . . . like the pillars of cathedral aisles." William's only happiness was "escape into that other dreamworld" until in a moralistic moment Grandfather Seabrook smashed Grandmother's laudanum bottle. It was too late to smash the hypnotic effects of her drugged mind on young William...
...sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill, a Leigh fan, has seen it twice.) John Gielgud has revived Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is a smash, plans to revive Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love, soon. Emlyn Williams will revive Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and Fay Compton opens this week in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes...