Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justification offered for these practices is the 20th-century concept of war as a totalitarian affair. Under this theory a whole nation is mobilized. A factory worker, a government clerk, a physician becomes just as important a cog in the modern war machine as the soldier at the front. All are legitimate "military objectives...
...unique effort in this direction, both in concept and in result, was that a student who in the small hours of the morning before the exam, fortfied himself with rounds of whiskey and soda...
...famed Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, in which perpendicular beams of light were raced against each other, seemed to show that a light-carrying ether pervading all space did not exist. Fitzgerald, Larmor and Lorentz shored up the collapsing ether-concept by showing-theoretically-that a moving body must contract slightly in the direction of motion, that a moving clock would therefore slow down. Though imperceptible except at speeds approaching light's velocity (186,000 mi. per sec.), these changes would affect a Michelson-Morley apparatus just enough to cancel any possible observation of the ether-drift-by altering...
...physical commotion caused by this report rose a burning question: Was it another proof of Relativity, or did it revive the ether concept, which has no place in a relativistic world? The answer to that question depends on whether the observed effects were due to absolute motion through an ether, or to relativistic motion, the motion of the particles relative to Dr. Ives' apparatus-a point which was not settled last week. In Princeton, Dr. Einstein accepted the experiment as another prop for Relativity. Some of his admirers agreed with him, but some of his critics thought the experiment...
...week it was reported that the War Minister, having surveyed the China War in person, will recommend an immediate supreme Japanese effort to take Hankow, will probably carry the Japanese Cabinet with him into this bold of rash policy. General Sugiyama was said to be impressed with the historical concept "Hankow is the Military Heart of China," to have convinced himself that once this "heart" is in Japanese hands it will be impossible for the Chinese to keep up organized resistance. With the fall of Hankow, the Japanese would not merely have taken another "Chinese Capital." They would have seized...