Word: echoeing
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Robert, growing older, also has trouble because of his faith. It is shaken when sickness prevents his winning the scholarship that might have made him a doctor. It is sorely pressed when his best friend, hurrying to console him, is killed by a train before his eyes. (Audiences may echo with equal perplexity his plea to God: "Why? Why?") It is destroyed when, despite prayer, his foster-mother dies. With faith gone, it is natural enough for Robert to reject the girl (Beverly Tyler) who wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with...
Competition had been strong for the struggling paper. One editor admitted in later life that they "couldn't hope to compete with the Advocate in sports coverage." The daily Echo mushroomed in 1879, and the Daily Herald appeared on a four-page 14 by 11 format...
...pick up the feeble echo, the receiving apparatus had to be extra sensitive. Although the transmitter shot out 4,000 watts of power, echoing back from the moon came only 9/10,000,000,000,000,000 of a watt-that was strong enough to be received clearly. On the visual "scope" the echo showed as a wiggle in a luminous blue line, and could be heard as a brief hum. It came at the right time for a 450,000-mile round trip-about 2.4 seconds after the outgoing pulse...
...Signal Corps repeated the experiment many times, and disinterested scientists checked the results. Sample check: the echo wave at moonrise-when the first contact was made-was slightly higher in frequency than the outgoing pulse. In accordance with the Doppler Effect, a wave reflected from an approaching body must increase its frequency. Chiefly because of the earth's revolution, the moon at that hour was moving toward the sending station at about 750 miles an hour...
...some suspect, science's present conceptions of the universe would have to be scrapped. Since radio waves travel at the same speed as light, and the distance from the earth to the moon can be figured closely by triangulation, measuring the time it takes for a radar echo to come back from the moon should provide astronomers with a continuous check on the speed of light-and a double check on Dr. Einstein...