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Word: utensil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again the animal motif is seen in the bronze censer surmounted by three lions, which in spirit resemble the Babylonian rather than the Assyrian. Though this piece is not of the same importance artistically as those already mentioned, still as an example of a decorated house-hold utensil it is not without interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Art Museum Exhibition Displays Findings of Harvard Expedition to Mesopotamia, and Shows Objects of Past Ages | 10/28/1930 | See Source »

...available at Caltech were used initially, the effect would be four times as powerful. If, as the physicists hope, they can load the mercury ions five or six times, they expect to get the equivalent of five or six million volts, wherefrom rays could penetrate the thickest man-made utensil, could pop atoms open, perhaps lay bare the essentials of all Matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Popping Atoms Open | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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