Word: blast
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toboggan slides at Brookline and Dorchester are in full blast...
...will be remembered that the blast was exploded Oct. 10 at 11.13 o'clock, and a few seconds over. Prof. Rogers first observed disturbances in the mercury surface at 11.17.30, and from that time disturbance waves came at nearly regular intervals of about 18 seconds, until the maximum was reached on the fourth or fifth wave. Then the impulses declined in force and died away about as they had come. In addition to the screen Prof. Rogers made use of direct observation of the mercury surface through a microscope, thus giving him the added advantage of judging the wave...
...hills. But C., ah C.! He heard the summons of the blast, and cooly sauntering into the library, took from the mathematical alcove an armful of books, and loaded down with treatises on calculus, determinants, quarternions, arbitrary functions and the theory of the potential, a very Archimedes, with formulas enough to reconstruct a universe,- stalked fearlessly in the wake of the white robed angel! He remembers no more; but this bare glimpse of the products of his busy brain will serve to show something of the possibilities that lurk within it. The very evening of the day on which this...
Suddenly, chancing to look over towards one of the windows during an unusually sharp blast of the sleet outside, I saw a face peering through the pane. I could not jump,-for lack of salutatory machinery,-but a thrill went through me It was my own face. It was thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...
...each time he passionately offers himself. He continues unceasingly to offer himself, and all around him, living sacrifices on the altar of his divinity, who will never smile upon him. Young man, be not deceived; trust her not, she's fooling thee." You cannot,-we are sorry to blast your high-blown ambition by the revelation,-cannot yodel. Requiescat in pace, and let us too requiescat...