Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blood groupings, Nobel laureate and member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, went to court in Manhattan for an injunction to keep his name out of a new edition of Who's Who in American Jewry. Explained Dr. Landsteiner, a Catholic convert: "Among peoples of the earth [there is] prejudice against Jews and Judaism. ... It will be detrimental to me to emphasize publicly the religion of my ancestors; first, as a matter of convenience and secondly, I want nothing that may in the slightest degree cause any mental anguish, pain or suffering to any members of my family...
...amplified by a system of levers, were transmitted by means of a stylus to a recording drum. In modern instruments the stylus is replaced by a beam of light which makes its zigzag tracks on photosensitive paper. Actually it is not the heavy mass which moves, but everything else-earth, observatory, revolving drum -while the weight, which is freely suspended, remains still because of its inertia...
...Carnegie Institution's seismograph station on Mt. Wilson in California, Dr. Hugo Benioff has built recorders which work by electromagnetism. The weight is a magnet hung so that its poles are a tiny fraction of an inch from the armature. When an earth tremor twitches the armature, the distance between it and the magnet changes slightly, altering the magnetic field and creating a tiny electric current which is amplified by vacuum tubes. This current fluctuates the light beam which makes the record, also twitches a galvanometer needle. In the Benioff seismograph, earth movements are magnified 200,000 times...
...characters, she has said, would be "an eternity of bliss spent in the very best hotel in Brighton." (Bennett's characteristic retort was that Virginia Woolf's novels "seriously lack vitality.") And of H. G. Wells: "What more damaging criticism can there be both of his earth and of his Heaven than that they are to be inhabited here and hereafter by his Joans and his Peters?" But Virginia Woolf's criticism is usually appreciative. Her critical motto is a quotation from Sam Johnson that echoes her own literary practice: "Above all, he is guided...
...sale. In every port from Boston to the South Seas he had hunted for a sailing ship only half as perfect. He bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon an earth which had grown, it thought, beyond the need of it." Applicants for the cadet part of his crew were plentiful but it took weeks to pick cadets who were not too obviously neurotic misfits. Of women applicants he could have had enough to pack the Joseph Conrad...