Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceiling, a control board studded with dials, the underground laboratory looked something like the inside of a submarine. The Svedberg centrifuge's 7-in. disk rotates at 60,000 r.p.m., has a peripheral speed of about 24 miles a minute, one-third greater than that of Earth at the Equator. Particles whirled at that rate are subjected to a force 250,000 times that of gravity. In short spurts the centrifuge can rotate up to 160,000 r.p.m., exaggerating gravity 1,100,000 times. If this speed were maintained more than a few seconds the rotor would fly into...
...Present is Earth's front parlor. . . . Archeologists and paleontologists pick the locks of the dim cellars of the Past, where Earth keeps the shadows of her fabulous beasts and speechless half-men, the ghosts of her once-glorious rulers. . . . Recent doings of diggers...
...advancing arguments in favor of governmental control of the arms trade, Senator Nye asserted that "no power on this earth is lending more directly and positively to the spirit of war than is our country...
These are the forces which must be combatted not only in Massachusetts but throughout the whole country. They must be beaten to the earth and the leaders, the Ray Murphys, the James Van Zandt's and the others must be rendered helpless. This work can and must be begun in Massachusetts, through the medium of the Teacher's Oath Bill. To those, who have started this sincere battle, and to those who will continue the good work, go all power and credit...
...pregnant questions arising outside their profession. As stated in the postscript, the lesson contained in Idiot's Delight is that ''by refusing to imitate the Fascists in their . . . hysterical self-worship and psychopathic hatred of others, we may achieve the enjoyment of peaceful life on earth rather than degraded death in the cellar." Happily, the solemn depths of this shopworn text are instinctively bridged by Mr. Sherwood's great gift for high comedy...