Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Open to students who have had mathematics sufficient for the solution of triangles and who are able to use logarithms, the Engineering Camp at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, opens its summer season on Saturday, June 25, and continues for eight weeks, ending Friday, August...
...years the scientific world has waited for experimental demonstration of the Fitzgerald-Larmor-Lorentz effects. That demonstration was historically furnished last week at the meeting of the august National Academy of Sciences in Washington. The physicist who furnished it was Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Telephone Laboratories. For "clocks" he used (at Einstein's suggestion, made in 1907) glowing particles of hydrogen gas. In such particles the frequency of energy oscillations determines the wave length of the emitted light, just as the oscillation frequency of a radio transmitter determines the length of the radio waves. When his particles...
...King of Kings will be pleased to stand in front of the $50,000,000, 17th-Century Peacock Throne and watch file past him diplomats, ministers, army officers, notables, all clasping their hands on wrists to show they carry no weapons, all bowing heads in profound deference to the August Presence. Unhappy the lot of a mere commoner who should by chance say "Your Majesty" instead of "Your Imperial Majesty," or by a slip of the tongue call Iran "Persia...
Divorced. Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; by Alice Busch Hager Preece, daughter of the late St. Louis Brewer August Anheuser Busch Sr.; in St. Louis. Grounds: cruelty. Two years ago Sportsman Preece was divorced from Lily Busch Magnus, his second wife's second cousin...
...come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring. Last week Vladimir Poliakoff chalked up the latest of a long series of coups: a clean scoop in the London Evening Standard on a draft of the coming Anglo-Italian treaty (see p. 22). Next morning's august London Times, which usually ignores lesser publications, had to eat humble pie by virtually lifting Augur's account. What made the pie harder to swallow was the fact that Poliakoff served the Times twelve of his 20 journalistic years, and since deserting it last year (preferring to work...