Word: splinterable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1898 when it was first discovered, Eros has attracted unusual attention both because of its fickle brightness and because it is one of the earth's nearest neighbors. A cold splinter of rock, estimated to be about 22 miles long and 7 miles thick, Eros sometimes comes within 14,000,000 miles of the earth...
...solidarity of the little group begins to splinter. The generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would...
...other words shrapnel does not splinter. High explosive shell (termed simply H. E.) is what splinters on impact and causes splinters to fly in every direction. Present war tendencies favor H. E. shell over shrapnel, which is effective only against animals and personnel in the open. Shrapnel bursting charge blows the soft brass fuse from the head of the case and sprays the balls in an elliptical pattern over cone-shaped paths...
...Edith Gait Wilson, Eugene Luther Vidal. Tom Mix and many another noted U. S. citizen, Wiley Post was part Indian. Born 36 years ago on a Texas farm, he was raised in the Indian Territory oil fields, showed an early mechanical bent. One cay a red-hot steel splinter flew into his left eye, blinded it. Given $1,800 disability compensation, he promptly bought an old "Canuck," was soon barnstorming the Southwest. In Sweetwater, Tex. he met & married a pretty 17-year-old girl named Mae Laine who regarded him and his occupation with a wide-eyed enthusiasm not shared...
...This spring a wrecking crew pried the door off a car which had been overturned down an embankment and out stepped the driver with only a scratch on his cheek. But his mother was still inside, a splinter of wood from the top driven four inches into her brain as a result of son's taking a greasy curve a little too fast. No blood-no horribly twisted bones-just a gray-haired corpse still clutching her pocketbook in her lap as she had clutched it when she felt the car leave the road...