Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instant the door was blocked. Brutal with fear the bigger children fought, kicked, trampled the little ones under foot. Inside the theatre 15-year-old Jimmie McVey, operator's assistant, fought to show children to the side door. He could rescue only 30. Fear-crazed youngsters tried to climb up on the wall gas brackets, out of the panic. The brackets broke, flooded the theatre with...
...bundle of matter which man knows, would be a morning glory pod popping out its electron and proton seeds, if physicists had an electric current of sufficiently high voltage at their hands. General Electric jupiters and Westinghouse thors have produced 5,000,000 volts of static electricity for an instant's duration. Their passing flashes have been useful only to indicate the nature of natural lightning. General Electric's William David Coolidge two years ago succeeded in ramming 350,000 volts through three special vacuum tubes connected in tandem. He got the cumulative, cascading effect...