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Word: dimensionalized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"After leaving school, some men go to college, some to work, and a few to Harvard," declared, one essayist. "When these few get to Cambridge they spend most of their time fighting for 'dear old Alma Martyr, taking Physics and studying objects that can be described as 'completely globular in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English A Instructor Reveals "Howlers" Culled From Work Of Freshmen--One Urges Students, "Fight for Alma Martyr!" | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

Should that principle be universally applied, the effect would be equivalent to creating a fence 500 ft. high around every airport. And as approved aircraft have a minimum gliding ratio of 7-to-1, airmen have computed that 3,500 ft. would have to be added to each dimension of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Sky the Limit? | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

First to make any strong assault was Germany's Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909), who stated that Time is a dimension. Following him came Germany's Albert Einstein with his relativity laws. England's Arthur Stanley Eddington in The Nature of the Physical World told man that his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two Times? | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Dr. Slosson predicted that crop trees, which grow at the rate of 10% per year for the first 15 years and at the rate of 4% as they approach maturity, will never be allowed to reach their full growth. When they are allowed to mature, only 50% of them is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster Trees, Strong Straws | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basic Criticism | 2/19/1930 | See Source »

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