Word: beams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unnamed, to be launched from Way O of New York Shipbuilding Co.'s Camden, N. J. yard this week. It was on Way O that the aircraft carrier Saratoga was built. The U. S. Line's new liner will be 705 ft. long, have a beam of 86 ft., a speed of 20 knots. It will be the largest merchantman ever built...
...years. (He visited in 1921.) He will arrive just in time to see Dr. Michelson perform his light experiments. Since he was a young physics instructor at Annapolis, Dr. Michelson has repeated his measurements from time to time, refining his technique with each performance. In 1926, he shot a beam of light from Mt. Wilson to San Antonio Peak, 22 mi. away, determined that light travels 186,284 mi. per sec. Later he was convinced that he might have made an error of 18.62 mi. per sec. because of earth movements. This time he has prepared a mile-long vacuum...
...curvature and limitation of space. He will be able to put his eye to Dr. Michelson's eyepiece, watch the light flash in a 32-faced revolving mirror placed at one end of the tube. The mirror is adjusted so that by the time the light beam has raced away from it, down the mile tube and back again, another one of its 32 faces has turned to catch the light. By measuring the time it takes the revolving mirror to turn Dr. Michelson reckons the speed. This performance is different from the classic Michelson-Morley experiment on which...
...that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with a wooden beam or a dry tree trunk. On the seventh day, the wooden fillings were set on fire. Two walls surrounded the city. The outer, 8 ft. thick, rolled down the slope on which Jericho was built. Portions of the inner wall, 12 ft. thick, resisted the fire, still stand. Charred dwellings...
...black rooters, to take revenge on Lincoln of Pennsylvania for beating them last year. Both teams were so extraordinarily cautious that Hampton scored only three first downs, Lincoln only two. Quarterback Hiawatha Harris of Hampton disgusted his followers by the way he handled punts and was replaced by Long Beam who juggled less. Famed Halfback Edgar ("Beau") Guess did nothing whatever. Hampton 0, Lincoln...