Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building, which will probably be started this spring, will be three stories in height and will include a two-story vault that will have a constant humidity and temperature in order to secure the safety of the photographic plates which are valued at more than...
...evident that the proposal is in line with the one constant ideal in the Harvard concept of education intellectual freedom for the individual. How the fellowships, if established, will work out in practice is another matter. University theory and practice are two different things and innovations are often more attractive on paper than in subsequent actuality. The great problem of the new proposal will be to imbue its spirit into the flesh of University administration. While grades, theses, and courses dominate the standards of University Hall, it will be exceedingly difficult to select the basic material for the fellowships...
...machinery will be insulated where it touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear only enough sound to prevent them from being distracted by complete silence. They will be illuminated by constant artificial daylight containing a small percent of healthy ultraviolet, will breathe air which has been washed, heated, humidified. The ten million cubic feet of air will be changed every ten minutes. Contaminating gases and machine dirt are to be drawn out through hoods into an underground exhaust system...
Last week U. S. scientists read with interest that Dr. Paul Renno Heyl, U. S. Bureau of Standards physicist, had determined more accurately than ever before the value of G, constant of gravitation. He found it to be .00000006670 dynes.* The most commonly accepted value for G has been .00000006658 dynes obtained in 1895-96 by Physicists Charles Vernon Boys in England and Karl Ferdinand Braun in Germany...
...carry out this part of the program, as well as to make the facilities available to qualified investigators, friendly and continuing relations with universities are obviously essential. Equally essential will be a constant endeavor to encourage the coordination of effort between various scientific institutions of this and other countries, that is especially needed in Oceanography, where the area to be covered is so vast and where so many fields of science intertwine...