Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Synthesis. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is irked by such caution, says it reminds him of the clergyman who wrote his wife: "I shall be home (God willing) on Friday, and in any case by Saturday." By mathematical means Sir Arthur has arrived at a value for lambda, the cosmical constant of repulsion which scatters the universe, and his lambda value would have the nebulae receding at even greater speeds than the observed velocities. This work incidentally enabled him to compute the total number of protons and electrons in the universe: 10 79 (ten followed by 78 zeros...
...assistant professor of Physics, has been determining the speed of light by means of apparatus constructed under his direction in the Physics department. Professor Black pointed out that, in spite of its enormous size, the speed of light is known with greater accuracy than almost any other physical constant and that it is important in the study of many other types of radiation besides optics...
...matter which should be as simple as the shooting of a couple of mad dogs involves the constant bombast of attorneys, the endless slush of newspaper columns, and the preparing of a jury for its labors by taking it en bloc to a baseball game...
Eloquently set forward by its sponsors as ". . . boiling over with sizzling, syncopating rhythm . . .", the offering at the Park Theater is not of pristine quality. The chorus is as usual but another testimonial to the proverb that beauty, unlike fine wine or Dunhill briars, does not improve with age and constant handling. Let this be no deterrent, however, to those who view life with the comic spirit, for such will find the entertainment eminently laughable. And since no smoking is allowed at the Park Theater, the stage is always clearly visible...
...educators have wailed at the top of their lungs since early in Depression. On Government and public they have rained a constant barrage of statistics, growing steadily more formidable. By now 5,000 schools are closed and school terms shortened in one of every four U. S. cities & towns; $40,000,000 in back salaries is owed to 40,000 teachers; 100,000 teachers are unemployed: school enrollments have upped 960,000 while school revenues were falling $150,000,000; school building expenditures are down 80%, textbook purchases down...