Word: arc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular maneuver of jai alai is the rebate (pronounced re-bó-tay): recovering the ball off the back wall in a wide sweeping arc that usually topples the player to the ground...
...Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls of rain. About 11 o'clock, when the moon was well up in the southeast sky, the rainbow appeared in the northwest, where a thunderstorm was in progress. The prismatic colors were fairly distinguishable. The arc was complete, the two ends dipping into...
...President and Mme Albert Lebrun a hollow square of close-riding, flashing-helmeted cavalry of the Garde Républicaine, added motorcycle outriders for good measure. There were 10,000 reserve officers in the houses along the route. Thus the State progress from the Bois de Boulogne to the Arc de Triomphe, down the Champs-Elysees, across the Place de la Concorde to the Palais d'Orsay, last week was a stately military parade, enlivened by wave on wave of cheering, and by Gaelic chaffing at the expense of "That scared rabbit Sarraut!" As the King...
Sister Mary persuaded her superiors to provide the money for a pendulum to occupy nine stories in the unused shaft. The chromium-plated bob weighs 30 pounds, makes one back-&-forth oscillation through an arc of about six feet every twelve seconds. At the centre of the swing, the bob passes close to a waxed indicator table, and by means of a high voltage transformer an electric spark is passed from the bob to the wax, makes a mark showing the amount of rotation every hour-or oftener if desired for demonstration purposes. To start the pendulum going, without torque...
...measurements of lunar motion which he started making a half-century ago have recently been rechecked with the help of modern calculating machines. Dr. Brown remarked with evident amusement that only two extremely slight errors had been found, both amounting to less than 1/100 of a second of arc on the curve...