Word: thunderous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy bolt of lightning hit the Washington Monument. But nobody in the neighborhood heard any clap of thunder. The occurrence was recorded by the National Bureau of Standards as a bolt of thunderless lightning...
...perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, Van Doren is well known as a poet, critic, and editor. He has written studies of Thoreau, Dryden, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. His own books of verse include: "Spring Thunder," "7 P. M.," "Now the Sky," 'A Winter Diary," "The Last Look," and others. He is editor of the "Oxford Book of American Prose," "American Poets 1930-1930," "An Autobiography of America," and "An Anthology of World Poetry...
...thriller Gang Busters this week rounds out a three-year career in the service of law & order and Palmolive Shave Cream. It will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...
Gangsters, holocausts, thunder-gusts and earthquakes were all provided against by the architects of San Francisco's new U. S. Mint. They never thought of kids. One evening last week Paul Francis and William Gallagher, each 15, walked past the massive four-story money fortress and remembered having read it was "impregnable...