Thomson promoted the Crookesian view of cathode rays as particulate against the apparent counterevidence presented by Phillip Lenard that such particles were not stopped by an encounter with metal […]

Gated, gilded and gaudy, they have sprung up all over China: overwrought government buildings erected at vast public expense, and in stark contrast to the shoddy state of so many homes and schools. In style they range from modernist brutalism to Versailles kitsch.

The bullies pushed the boy over and gave him a kicking.

The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.