Word: swarm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companions were not employes of the store, but union organizers who had seized it in a raid, cowing employes into a strike. Here at last were sit-downers against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action as a "form of banditry," and a swarm of 300 policemen raided and routed them. With public opinion swinging behind them at the revelation of these "professional sit-down strikers," the emboldened police moved on seven shoe stores and a food plant, smashed sit-downs in all of them...
...Buck for the first time to invent a spectacular locust plague. In what is the cinema's first investigation of what may prove a fertile field for drama-the War against the Insect-Wang and his men. ankle deep in bugs, battle with fire, clubs and feet the swarm which drones down the valley, blackening the sky. Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally the wind comes, blowing the locusts back...
...dispersed and disorganized by the vibration and must make their way alone. But, in the view of Professor John Clarke Slater, head of M. I. T.'s physics department, in the neighborhood of Absolute Zero the atomic interference is so feeble that electrons may combine in large swarms and travel along together like mountain climbers tied together by a rope. By virtue of this "co-operation," the faint show of opposition that might impede one electron impedes the swarm not at all, and electrical resistance is therefore...
...went the handles of the detonators and afternoon papers throughout the world shrieked such page-wide headlines as: COMMUNISTS BLOW UP ALCÁZAR! - NEARLY ALL DEFENDERS FEARED DEAD! An entire trainload of additional Red militia had arrived from Madrid to help the Toledo Militia swarm in over the ruins. To make the assault safer Red artillery poured a 15-minute barrage into the clouds of dust and smoke rising over the Alcázar. Then 1,500 militia led by four militia girls surged forward expecting merely to wade in White blood. As they neared Spain's West...
...m.p.h. along the 300-yd. rows of plants. Smooth wet spindles combed into the plants, caught the white tufts from open bolls. From the spindles the cotton was mechanically stripped and blown into a collecting bag. Hour after hot hour the spindle-belts droned on like a swarm of bees. Bag after bellying bag poured out its load in a white cascade. Spectators crowded around to finger and scrutinize mechanically picked cotton...