Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...against the atoms of elements might conceivably change those elements into new and precious forms. Mercury might yet become gold, as alchemists dreamed. Theoretically the procedure is simple. An atom of mercury contains at its centre, 198 protons (positively charged particles) and 118 electrons. Around that nucleus swirl 80 more electrons. These complete the mercury balance of 198 electrons against 198 protons. An atom of gold contains 197 protons and 118 electrons in its nucleus and 79 more electrons shooting around them. If it becomes possible for the beta particles from Dr. Coolidge's tandem tubes to blast...
...addicts agreed the race was the most spectacular ever ridden in Manhattan. Necessarily slow hours of daytime and early morning riding were followed by wildest maelstroms every evening. Nearly every team in the ride led at one time or another. The winners were once five laps behind. The stunning swirl of darting, stumbling, riders that follows every attempt at a stolen lap was virtually continuous through the evening-hours when the crowd is thickest. 360 laps were stolen by the teams in six days; the old record...
...tense silence, which made people's ears ring, and a sense of oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...
Heavy rains and tornadoes swept eastern Siberia last week, raising the River Amurat the rate of an inch per hour. Soon more than 100 villages were flooded; 40,000 peasants were rendered homeless; 100 drowned. The angry waters continued to swirl, threatening Khabarovsk, important Siberian city. The storm showed no sign of abating...
...lectures will long remember with what an unusual combination of objectivity and sympathy he dealt with the various representatives of Medieval thought. They were presented not as "ists" perambulating a pet "ism" but as men straining their eyes to catch a glint of the truth behind the mists that swirl about the human mind. Any lingering doubt as to the brightness of the so called "dark ages" in the minds of his hearers was completely, dispelled. As Professor Gilson often points out it is only possible to paste this label on the centuries following the fall of Rome if intellectual...