Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point Arthur Holly Compton, already a crowned king of terrestrial radiation, leaped into the cosmic quest. He had an impatient desire to collect a mass of far-flung recordings with the greatest possible speed. Eight cooperating expeditions were to measure the rays in Greenland, Denmark, India, Ceylon, Java, Tibet, South Africa, Eritrea, Spitsbergen, Switzerland. One man was to make records from Peru around the Cape of Good Hope to the U. S. Two Compton men were killed trying to scale Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Dr. Compton himself, with his wife and elder son, set out on a cosmic search...
...breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each 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...
...Olympic team at all to Nazi Germany this year, but to the fact that since 1928 winter sports in the U. S. have ceased to be a patrician fad and have become instead a national pastime in a class with baseball, football and golf. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen, U. S. speed skaters and bobsledders have more than a fair chance to repeat their victories of the 1932 winter games at Lake Placid. At hockey, fancy skating and skiing they are likely to be beaten. Major event of the 1936 Winter Olympics will be the ski-jump, for which grandstands have been...
...stored UP a healthy surplus of rich blood, the reserve blood is treated with sodium citrate to prevent clotting and preserved by electric refrigeration for possible use at any time before, during or after childbirth The principal advantage of the banked blood method obviously is one of speed in supplying immediate transfusions without the sometimes fatal delay of searching for a professional or other donor of suitable type. Because the blood is taken from the patient at least a week before birth is due, there is ample time for the body to furnish new blood, thereby alleviating danger of weakness...
...what Christianity meant to Chinese converts. When Chinese women sang hymns, "everyone sang as quickly and as loudly as she could. . . . No one sang the tune, but only his own. . . . The old lady next to her rocked back " forth squeaking in a high falsetto, gabbling at a terrific speed, her long fingernail following the characters down the page. She finished ahead of all the other singers, slapped her book shut, and sat down in triumph. . . ." While her husband, his zeal and his absentmindedness both increasing, preached his way about the country, Carie stayed home, learned how to be a good...