Word: equilibriums
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Waterspouts and tornadoes are caused by a condition of unstable equilibrium in the atmosphere. A warm, damp air layer close to land or sea attempts to rise through a layer of cool, dry air. The warm air literally breaks a hole in the cooler air, rushes upward. Passing through the hole it assumes a whirling motion. The centrifugal force of the column develops a partial vacuum on the inside...
...those particular individuals today's ceremonies stand for an imminent and momentous transition. It has been an occasion for much sentimentalising and cynicism, but in spite of the usual abundance of talk on both sides of the situation the Class of 1930 will in all probability maintain its equilibrium in the time to come...
...College Boards but the record in the Scholastic Aptitude Tests and the school record that give the best indication of the student's abilities. The obvious inference is that cramming for entrance results in nothing more than catapulting the man into college without any consideration for his equilibrium after he has arrived...
...reel precipitantly down the ice-covered, unboarded steps diagonally from the front door to the outer periphery. For the first week one stands an even chance of getting to the bottom without amusing the smokers lounging about the pillars by an elaborate balancing act in attempting to maintain his equilibrium. At the end of this period, the going becomes increasingly difficult, so much so that only the most intrepid can traverse the smoothly beveled ice. Finally the thaw comes; the uninitiated again splash joyously over their acoustomed route, hoping that before their Harvard days are over they shall have mastered...
...essential of any educational institution is the facility for research. To those who were suffering under the fond illusion that the administration had exhausted every available outlet for new restrictions, the announcement that Harvard will not award a degree to any of her sons who cannot maintain his watery equilibrium, comes as a pleasant indication of the University's continued experimentation in the field of curricular requirements. However, another hurdle more or less in the college race means little to the weary undergraduate after a few years practice dodging the devious man-traps lurking in and about the A.B. degree...