Word: drift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the earth, the ether is subject to a 95% drag, but slips away again 50%; 3) That the whole solar galaxy (group of planets) is moving toward the constellation of the Dragon at a rate of 120 miles a second. The significance of the ether-drift calculations in brief is: The man who made them, Dr. Dayton C. Miller of the Case School of Applied Science (Cleveland), President of the American Physical Society, participated in the original ether-drift experiments of Professors Michelson and Morley 20 years ago, upon which Dr. Einstein built his theory of relativity...
...York has been building too fast. The boom is inflated. Rents are coming down. A severe and slow panic impends"?such was the concurrent drift of remarks made a fortnight ago by Walter Stabler, Comptroller of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and of a wise old Manhattan banker, Clarence H. Kelsey, who has seen all the "hard times" in 40 years. They added that they would lend no more money for New York City building...
...Luther will have to resume in name the office which he still exercises in fact, and continue to carry on with a minority government. Meanwhile President von Hindenburg announced that he would declare a Christmas recess on all attempts to form a cabinet. Observers opined that the matter may drift unsettled well into the New Year, since no emergency threatens...
...their weight occur exactly as, or shortly after, the sun or moon passes over them. The weight variations are infinitesimal. To detect them would require fabulously sensitive scales. But could ic be done, Science would have a check on Einstein far more clean-cut and conclusive than ether-drift experiments and eclipse observations...
...according to the conventional supposition, a poor method of entertaining your visitors. Mr. Kaufman talks shop and entertains his visitors as thoroughly as they may be entertained anywhere in town. His shop is the Theatre in which he works; his characters, people of the Theatre and the strange drift of folk who gather on its edges. His method is satirical and his result a genuine comedy...