Word: emitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cincinnati's Zoological Gardens, Contralto Bernice Mershon opened her mouth to emit Alan-a-Dale's part in an outdoor performance of Robin Hood. Past her gleaming teeth, into the warm, dark cavity of her throat, flew a bug. Contralto Mershon shuddered, swallowed, sang on. When she could get offstage she chewed a mint, gulped some medicine, gasped: ". . . the biggest sacrifice I ever made...
Sweeping in a Manhattan post office, last week, a negro employe stepped on a parcel and was startled to hear it go siss, and emit wisps of smoke. He gave it a "kick, let out a yell. The package stopped smoking, and nothing happened...
Among the Germans was Herr Doktor Gustav Stresemann, Reich Foreign Minister and leader of the Teuton delegation, his lynx-like eyes darting about, occasionally flashing with amusement. But never did his thin lips part in a smile, nor his heavy jowls open to emit a guffaw. Noted was his extreme pallor. With him was Count Johann Heinrich von Bern-storff, onetime German Ambassador to Washington, sphinxlike, debonair, aging...
...must be re-written," now that relativity has set up a definite connection between electricity and gravitation. So said Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker of Edinburg University. He offered some propositions: that if the gravitation of a planet could vary rapidly, an electrified body in the field of attraction would emit radiation; that "gravi-tation simply represents a continued effort of the universe to straighten itself...
...wheeled cart in which the Tenno's remains will journey to the grave. For constructing the Imperial Hearse he will receive the princely fee of 100,000 yen ($50,000). No one else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse will be made of unvarnished cypress, oak, teakwood and fir, 12 feet high, 23½ feet long, the whole polished to glassy smoothness...