Word: strokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Giro ("The Boss") Terranova, 49, onetime Artichoke King; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 31 years of racketeering, Terranova was arrested 14 times, convicted once, jailed never...
...yard Breast Stroke: First; Berizzi (H); Second, Monroe (H); Third, Murphy (S). Time...
...Admiral Grayson's home, was not allowed to see his good friend whom he named chairman of the American Red Cross in 1935-Died. Prince Nicholas of Greece, 66, uncle of Greece's King George II, father of Britain's Duchess of Kent; of a stroke; in Athens. In impoverished exile in Paris, 1924-35, he improved his time with oil painting, occasionally showing as "M. Nicholas Leprince...
...used a special fast camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader...
They also found that often when the stroke comes from above, the presence of the charge in the air creates by induction an opposite charge in the target, and before the leader completes its course the target may emit upward streamers to meet the leader and guide it home...