Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classrooms were built without any glass in the windows. Boys attended class in woolens and mufflers, keeping their feet on bricks which had been heated in a furnace. The boys fared well (the fresh air, it was claimed, enabled them to do two years' work in one). But constant colds among the faculty finally ended the experiment...
Triumphant Work. Imbedded in Max Planck's Law of Radiation (published in 1901) was something vastly more important: Planck's "universal constant" (6.624 x 10 -27 erg-seconds), now considered one of the three fundamental figures in the universe.* Planck's constant enabled Einstein to conceive the "photon" (particle of radiation). It also made possible Niels Bohr's model of the atom. It turned up in spectroscopy, in the study of X rays, in electronics. Upon it is based the whole science of quantum (wave) mechanics...
Died. Will Harbut, 62, longtime groom and constant companion to his great & good friend Man o'War, 30; of a heart ailment; near Lexington, Ky. At Faraway Farm, Harbut showed the horse to nearly 1,000,000 visitors in 16 years, proudly called him "the mostest hoss in the world...
...into group insurance possibilities. Probing the University community for telling case histories should comprise a "must." In advance of the opening gong the opposing contentions, in addition, form a skeletal controversy for all to sec. On the one hand the Hygiene Department holds that its 113 beds in constant readiness for epidemic or abnormal accident occurrence constitute protection of the profoundest kind. The Department's detractors talk of more comprehensive schemes within a similar price range. It is up to the proposed University-wide Committee on Student Physical Welfare to fill in the relevant arguments on both sides...
...aging professor, envious of the love shared by two of his students, tries desperately to come by it vicariously, gloats over one of their captured love letters, and makes everyone unhappy, while intensifying his own insecurities. Attention further wanders from this basically good plot by the constant appearance of seven other people, professors, helpful friends, and relatives, most of whom are, though interesting characters, extraneous to the plot...