Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take four or five hours. One of astronomers' most tedious chores is to sit on a lofty, cramped perch at the eyepiece during these long exposures, in order to keep the cross-wires of the telescope centred exactly on the star image. Beautifully accurate as it is, the drive mechanism which swings the telescope along with the star's westward movement cannot be synchronized with absolute perfection. Atmospheric disturbances also may dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last week astronomers Albert E. Whitford and G. E. Kron of the University of Wisconsin announced satisfactory preliminary tests...
...several weeks they will take charge of the semi-annual old clothes drive in the Yard. They will also work in connection with the other committees in Brooks House, such as the Social Service, Speakers, and Foreign Students Committees...
Even discounting Mr. Farley's native optimism, the prospects of big Christmas spendings were rosy indeed. Aside from the continuing upward drive of Recovery, there are two good reasons for this rosiness, for both of which Mr. Farley could claim Democratic credit. One is the rising tide of extra dividend declarations, the other the nation-wide movement to raise wages, pay bonuses...
...hiding-place and in the subsequent confusion shot three innocent men and lost one agent to the escaping gunmen. Recounting the last-minute tip that made haste necessary and bad organization inevitable, Author Purvis tells of the flight of three airplanes loaded with special agents from Chicago, of the drive to Little Bohemia in ramshackle cars, of sneaking through the woods at night, of his attempted resignation when the full proportions of the catastrophe became clear. Thereafter he adopts an impersonal tone, discourses on the duties of Federal agents, gives an unilluminating sketch of his own background, discusses the habits...
...relatively secure in their position and enjoy qualified independence. But the instructors and tutors, concentrators believe, are, by and large, unable or unwilling to fulfill that function which their title suggests. Back of this generality lies the crucial fact that the young men of the Department must drive themselves unceasingly toward goals in research if they wish to be reappointed. The type of student attracted to Physics, even more than the general run, is seriously intent upon doing more than merely scratching the intellectual topsoil of his subject. It is equally obvious that the possibility of thorough cultivation fades away...