Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point Arthur Holly Compton, already a crowned king of terrestrial radiation, leaped into the cosmic quest. He had an impatient desire to collect a mass of far-flung recordings with the greatest possible speed. Eight cooperating expeditions were to measure the rays in Greenland, Denmark, India, Ceylon, Java, Tibet, South Africa, Eritrea, Spitsbergen, Switzerland. One man was to make records from Peru around the Cape of Good Hope to the U. S. Two Compton men were killed trying to scale Mt. McKinley in Alaska. Dr. Compton himself, with his wife and elder son, set out on a cosmic search...
...loins to once again resume the "white man's burden." Gouty lords and Cockney navvies, with tongue in ruddy British cheek and sturdy British finger crossed, will cheer King and Empire as the British Army arrives in Addis Ababa to save the black man from himself and to collect the taxes. England will self-sacrificingly exploit the natural resources of the country and grant the natives splendid positions paying as high...
...years of its court-studded existence the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers has fought many a stiff fight to collect revenue for its members when their music was publicly performed. Radio even prompted the Federal Government to charge ASCAP with violation of the Anti-Trust Law (TIME, July 1, et ante). The case is still pending but odds so far have favored ASCAP, which has made no bones about controlling the bulk of the popular music on which Radio depends...
...Laird, Colgate's well-publicized authority on sleep, also had a report to make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited by acquiring the upright position, there were some disadvantages. In erect man the blood tends to collect in the abdominal pool, which may cause a slight blood deficiency in the brain. Dr. Laird tested, for proficiency in mental arithmetic, six students with their heads a foot lower than their feet. In this position they were 14% more accurate, 7% faster than they were with their heads...
...daily to three secretaries. Frequently on the platform or before the microphone, he is proud to be called Bryanesque, speaks with a slight German accent, likes to tell how, as an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a $100 public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated he was to receive no other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers...