Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce Building, it had 87 employes, with a half-month payroll of $6,619,41. NRA now employs 1,555 people, uses 105,000 sq. ft. of office space, meets a $166,608,000 bi-monthly payroll. General Johnson gets $6,000 a year. His secretary, nurse, guardian and constant companion at Washington, in air planes, on trains, at banquets, Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, gets $5,780. When that news got out last month, Man of the Year Johnson hotly announced: "I think that was one below the belt. She knows more about this organization than anyone else. I am sure...
...Central Hospital. The treatment seemed to clean up their diabetes, to lower their blood pressure, and gave Dr. Hutton cause to declare: "If it does no better than control diabetes, as insulin does, the patient would still be better off because he would be free of the inconvenience of constant hypodermic medication...
...feature of the relativity theory . . . is the absoluteness of the velocity of light. -Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. The speed of light is perhaps the most fundamental of all the constants of nature. -Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. Speed-of-light . . . that most fundamental constant.-Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. In a universe torn to metaphysical shreds by conflicting theories as to its nature and origin, with the calm old laws of cause &; effect pushed aside by principles of indeterminance and inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light...
...another of about a year, another apparently following the tides of the ocean. And at 9 p. m. every night something happened which threw the tests entirely askew. Dr. Pease and Assistant Pearson did not say flatly that the speed of light could no longer be regarded as a constant. "The observed irregularities," they said, "are unexplained and their elucidation apparently will require more sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced Study, foresaw no need of revising his relativity theory, spoke of deformations in the earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should...
...Lone Wolf, The Brass Bowl, The Road to EnDor, The Trembling Flame, two score more), bridge player; mysteriously; in his Manhattan apartment where he lived alone. His body was found on the floor with head and shoulders, badly burned, resting on a blazing armchair. Friends said he was a constant and careless smoker, burned holes in pajamas, dressing gowns, bedcovers. An autopsy revealed that he was intoxicated when he died. Like the late Robert W. Chambers (see below), Author Vance was a onetime artist, a prodigiously prolific writer, a scorner of "literature...