Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weight of air at sea level. Cosmic rays ionize the imprisoned nitrogen. If the telescope is pointed at a source of the rays the gas in one sphere should be ionized less than the gas in the other. If the cylinder is swung athwart the ray, ionization should be equal in both spheres. Dr. Swann plans to swing his "telescope" to and fro until he can judge whether atoms are dying in the stars (Jeans) or are aborning between the stars (Millikan...
...equal propagandist is the conversational scarist, who peddles witticisms of drafts, who describes a feeling of boredom with academic life, and who pictures the great future of adventure and real service that comes with enlistment in an army in the Orient...
...being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect, has not a mathematician much nearer home erected for himself a wonderland of equal whimsy; and has he not also his new belfry...
...constant advocacy of a United Europe has given him a unique eminence. No other European statesman of equal stature has dared to labor avowedly for that goal. It is true that the wholeheartedness of his zeal for that goal may reasonably be doubted, for M. Briand was first of all a Frenchman. He seemed at times, with the intense nationalism of his race, ready to discard his great conception to preserve the temporary dominance of France. His attitude to Germany was a curious oscillation between friendship and an involuntary suspicion. But it must be remembered that he had always...
...they privately explained, has almost disappeared in a polyglot breed of Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese. Most U. S. whites on the islands look down socially upon this hybrid population. While socially inferior, the brown-skinned "Hawaiian" is a full-fledged U. S. citizen with political rights and power equal to those of the ruling white caste. Oldtime white residents claim that they could hold the native in his place if it were not for tourists from the mainland. These visitors, it is said, arrive with sentimental notions about a non-existent people and then proceed to flatter and hobnob...