Word: einstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Einstein theory in respect to the bending of a ray of star light as it passes near the gravitational field of the sun has been verified to the utmost satisfaction of all scientists by the recent measurement of the photographic plates taken by the Lick Observatory Expedition to Australia in the fall of 1922", said Professor H. T. Stetson in commenting on the recently published results of the solar eclipse expedition of 11922, sent under the auspices of the Lick Observatory to Wallal in northwester Australia, a point on the path of totality...
...When Einstein propounded his theory in 1905 he said that it must withstand three tests, the second of which concerned the recent expedition. It is that any star near the limb of the sun (edge of disc) should be displaced away from the sun's disc by 1.75 seconds of are on account of the influence of the magnetic or gravitational field of the sun on the star's light which must pass near the sun in order to reach the earth. According to Newtonian physics this displacement should amount to but 87 seconds...
...Mulciber "from morn to noon, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day" to fall from the pearly gates to the isle of Lemnos; but so far the direction is indeterminate. Perhaps Dr. Bautz, encouraged by the Homeric corroboration of his scientific computations, will enlist the aid of Einstein and F. Scott Fitzgerald to find on just which side of Paradise this infested sphere is whirling...
Indignant at Einstein's reticence about his most recent discovery, Robert L. Duffus, writing in The New York Globe, claims that the lack lies in the scientist rather than in the reporters and the public. The truths with which such men deal, he says, cannot be said to be discovered until they have been made as intelligible as murders or prizefights to the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...
...curriculum. (P. 19.) Foch, Marshal of Poland. (P. 23.) More pay for the men who make steel and cloth. (P. 6.) Ambassadorial homesickness as exhibited by Mr. Harvey. (P. 9.) Monte San Nicholas-eternal tribute to the dead. (P. 15.) Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, eager to join with Einstein in debate. (P. 21.) Mr. Taft's reputation, deemed "spotless" even by sensational publishers. (P. 24.) Stambuliski-hoisting communism by its own petard. (P. 12.) Justice Holmes-radical! (P. 3.) The prospective canonization of the late Pope Pius X. (P. 19.) Jack Dempsey, coal-miner and coal operator...