Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture shows in the simplest manner that things are not always what they seem. What is apparently a sharply bent line may be actually a lead pencil resting in a glass of water, the refraction occurring at the surface of the water where the pencil emerges into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted...
...film also explains Dr. Einstein's theory of how light rays from the stars are bent by the magnetic attraction of the sun as they pass it, and the verification of this theory by astronomers during an eclipse...
...Smillie '12, of the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation will be the chief speaker at a meeting of the University Medical Society at 8.15 o'clock this evening. The program of the meeting, which will take place in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Amphitheatre (Van Dyke Street entrance), will be supplemented by a demonstration of cases...
...clock this evening the Harvard Medical Society will hold a meeting in the Peter Bent Brigham Amphi-theatre (Van Dyke street entrance), at which Dr. F. G. Banting of Toronto will speak on "Insulin". All medical students and physicians are cordially invited to attend...
Arthur Edward Bent, A.B. (Meteorology...