Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experimentally observed by Caltech's Dr. Carl David Anderson (TIME, March 6), Dr. Dirac had declared such particles to be required by mathematical necessity. But this shy, angular youngster with small Wack eyes and small black mustache, already a big frog in the subatomic puddle, made his biggest splash three years ago when he declared the universe was a sea of negative electricity. Thus the nuclear protons of atoms were simply holes in the surrounding electronic field; matter was a honeycomb of nothingness in electrical space, and the traditional picture of matter and space was flipped upside down. When...
...archconservatism of the Arizona Press, due to mining influence, has left the field open to outside papers like the Examiner and even the far-away Denver Post. Actually it was competition with the Post, whose makeup it copies in rural editions, that lay behind the Examiner's splash, which it did not print at all in its home editions...
...substances. It seemed to Professor Rossi that in darting through sheets of metal the primary cosmic rays gave birth to a secondary radiation of electric particles. Two other physicists got on the scent, found that the secondary particles were generated in the form of showers-like spray from the splash of passing cosmic rays. Then Professor Rossi hooked up a new arrangement of coincidence counters, made further discoveries about the spray, which last week he reported. Coincidence counters are multiple arrangements of individual counting-tubes. Arranging three tubes in the form of a triangle, Professor Rossi was able, by recording...
...figure dressed as Uncle Sam crawl out on its wing, drop off. Down shot Uncle Sam, the massed lights following him as their operators waited for a parachute to billow over his head. No 'chute billowed. Faster & faster fell Uncle Sam until the beams caught a silvery splash on the surface of Lake Michigan. Then they quickly swung away. Muttered the crowd: "A dummy, of course...
Banks are no longer news in Manhattan or Chicago where the crises were passed months before President Roosevelt's national moratorium. But in three of the biggest cities of the land banks still splash the front pages with considerable regularity.* In Philadelphia the news is the prosecution or conviction of officers in several small defunct institutions. In Detroit it is the desperate effort to find out why its biggest banks were (and still are) shut tight.† In Cleveland it is the muckraking of Ohio's State Senate bank investigating committee. While liquidators began mailing the first payoff...