Word: effects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complaint was received yesterday morning by Chief J. J. McBride of the Cambridge force from a local lawyer to the effect that the play was, "Crude, immoral, and unfit for production." Accordingly, Chief McBride sent police Sergeants Odell and Presho to go to the play, make notes on it, and bring back a report as to its fitness for presentation. Sergeant Odell, when interviewed by the CRIMSON reporter, said he had no remarks to make, but it was seen that he had been taking detailed notes. Sergeant Presho was unwilling to make any official statement, but intimated that the play...
...Dulrnal Effect Unknown...
...slow progressive shift of the axis about which the earth rotates over a period of months and years has been known for a long time, explained Professor Stetson, but that there should exist such a diurnal effect depending upon the altitude of the moon in the sky was not known until the results of the present investigation were found. From the results of other investigations in progress at the Astronomical Laboratory last year, Professor Stetson is led to believe that the moon might cause a deviation in the direction of gravity as it passed over the meridian of the observer...
...phenomena which may be due to a combination of causes. Theoretically a small tide must take place in the earth's crust as the moon revolves about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct interpretation is that of a shift...
...importance, however, of the discovered effect, the astronomer added, need hardly be emphasized, as it is involved in the accurate determination of star positions upon the minute changes of which much of the knowledge of our universe depends. If the change in latitude here noted becomes substantiated by further researches, it will appear necessary to apply new corrections to astronomical observations not hitherto recognized. It may very well be that the discrepancies between the results for the positions of stars from widely separated observatories may be largely explained by this phenomenon...