Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sudan. About the same time, cadets at Khartum declined to give up their rifles on returning to barracks. British troops were forced to surround and arrest them...
...sultry August afternoon, the denizens of Mexico City were startled by the clatter of horses and the tramp, tramp, tramp of feet. With curious eyes, they watched detachments of police, armed with shining Mauser rifles, surround Congressional Hall...
...money owed by the de parted Banker Almy to his (Sandoval's) colleagues, erstwhile rebels in the captured city of New Orleans. They had, it would appear, hatched a plot to ship over to France certain financial inducements to some of the feminine harpies "with made-up titles," who surround Louis Napoleon, to persuade that calloused monarch to bestir himself in the cause of the Confederacy. They had collected some $250,000, much of it in honest English and French gold, had entrusted it to a shipping agent for transfer to France via the New York banks ? all cunningly...
...first place, few would consider restricting the Freshman with more rules than already surround him and to force him to see his Senior Advisor would simply be formulating another rule. It would also be a pernicious rule, destroying that invaluable contact between the first and the fourth year classes which it was intended to promote. Pressure to produce the contact might gently be applied upon the Senior, but when put upon the Freshman it raises the Senior to the innocuous position of a faculty advisor...
...scientists agree upon an atom which has a very minute, positively charged nucleus, neutralized by a number of negative electrons which surround it. The nucleus has always a definite number of positive charges upon it, varying from one (hydrogen) to 92 (uranium). Outside the nucleus are the negative electrons, varying in number in the same way. The outermost layer of these are the valence electrons, which mingle with those of other atoms in the process of combination. So far as physical science has gone, there have appeared but two fundamental entities, positive and negative electrons?the building stones...