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...impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some of their potential energy, help shatter themselves. Mr. Mann's machine consists of a brace to hold...
...David Lawrence this was an unwarranted Presidential whack on a spot already raw from a merciless blow of the Democratic National Committee's canny old Pressagent Charles Michelson, Picking up a Republican handout which recommended, among others, the columns of Lawrence & Co., Pressagent Michelson, in the Democratic Committee's frankly partisan weekly letter, baldly remarked early in April that "the Republican National Committee has formally taken over the Three Musketeers of anti-Administration, Frank Kent, Mark Sullivan and David Lawrence...
...lasted two minutes, 38 seconds. In them, Doyle had time to fetch Baer one resounding whack on the jaw. Baer had time to hit Doyle below the belt and then, because New York Commission rules prevent referees from stopping a fight on a foul, to floor his opponent twice and win by a technical knockout...
...Washington, the Rhode Island results were a whack between the eyes for both parties. Stunned by their good fortune, rejoicing Republicans interpreted the outcome according to their hopes. Cried Michigan's Senator Vandenberg: "Commonsense is convalescent at last." Warned House Minority Leader Snell: "It is the handwriting on the wall." Exulted Chicago Publisher Frank Knox: "Thank God, the people of Rhode Island can't be bought!" Bubbled Maine's Senator Hale: "It shows what's coming at the next election." Only discordant Republican voice was that of Ohio's onetime Senator Fess moaning in political...
...Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests...