Word: thundered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...physical subjects have immensely advanced. Benjamin Franklin's machine for producing electricity is a hundred times as large as the one we use today, yet ours is a hundred times as powerful. The electric light used to be seen only on the lecturer's table, but now his thunder has been stolen by the practical men of the day, and electricity lights our streets. The German experiments are almost microscopic, though the conclusions drawn from them are enormous...
During July a violent thunder-storm demolished the old pine on the Dartmouth campus, which has been a prominent feature in class day exercises at that college...
...with the remark that they comprise matters of latitude and longitude, elevation above the sea, prevalence of snow, proximity of fuel and water, means of access, statistics or approximate information as to rainfall at different seasons, prevalence of clouds mists, smoke of forest fires, dust, high winds, frequency of thunder-storms, duration of rainy or cloudy season, etc. - Advertiser...
...play as this could not exist without a murder in it. If it did not have one in fine style, the audience might think themselves cheated, and demand their money back. They are not disappointed, however, for it comes at the end of the third act, with lightning, stage thunder, dark woods, and all the necessary adjuncts. With the exception of the bull-fighters, dance at the end of Act I and the Tarantella at the end of Act II, there is little to raise the performance above a tedious mediocrity...
Especially ought something of this kind to be done in the Yale game, coming as it does at the very end of June, when we may expect either intense heat or a thunder storm, against both of which a canvas awning would offer protection...