Word: banging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Richet, French scientist, had been experimenting in the effects of "big bangs" on animals. Two weeks ago he exploded ten tons of melinite close to 20 dogs, and a few hens. The dogs survived but the fate of the hens was undisclosed. The French public, aided by shocked Britons, became horrified and indignant protests sounded on all sides. Nevertheless, undaunted, the Professor turned up during the past week with 20 more canine spectators for another "big bang." There was a telegram for him: President Poincare had courteously asked him to refrain from using dogs in deference to the popular...
...Wellington Koo, onetime delegate to the Washington Conference, went a messenger, left a box for the Doctor. Said Dr. Koo to some servants : "Take it outside and open it." They did. One lost a hand, one had his face mutilated, another was rendered unconscious when the box went bang...
Careful Koo, who avoided a big bang...
...investigation, thus far, has been the silence of Mr. Untermyer. But the New York lawyer has seemingly been laying for bigger game. No sooner had Secretary Hoover declared the need of organized purchasing in this country to offset foreign monopolies in trade than Mr. Untermyer went at him slam-bang on his attitude toward trade associations in this country, which has been with Mr. Untermyer a tender subject ever since the Lockwood Committee investigation in New York State...
Thereupon did the ex-Premier flush with anger, despite the fact that he is a professor of mathematics, a critic of the Einstein theory. He dropped the big book with a bang and with 20 of his Socialist colleagues he dashed across the Chambre to storm the Royalist benches. Six uniformed sergeants-at-arms rushed forward to stop the threatened melée; one seized M. Painlevé around the waist, but it was useless; they were outnumbered. Blows, kicks, curses, cuffs rained in profusion...