Word: ergs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then it pointed out that a four-letter word isn't necessarily simpler than a twelve-letter word. "For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable." On the other hand, the News thought that most of its readers would understand fairly longish ones like "intolerable" (though "unbearable" was better), or "incompatibility" (because of divorce cases), or "vulnerable" (because of bridge being so popular). The News conceded that it should have explained...
Marre worked for eighteen months in the celluloid capital, and at present is directing the Harvard Theater Workshop Production of "Henry IV." He asserts that he knows no Communists in the Guild, and adds that if there are any, they don't wield an erg of influence. "There are a few ineffectual left-wing liberals, with whose opinions most of Harvard would agree," says Marre, adding. "They do their best...
Triumphant Work. Imbedded in Max Planck's Law of Radiation (published in 1901) was something vastly more important: Planck's "universal constant" (6.624 x 10 -27 erg-seconds), now considered one of the three fundamental figures in the universe.* Planck's constant enabled Einstein to conceive the "photon" (particle of radiation). It also made possible Niels Bohr's model of the atom. It turned up in spectroscopy, in the study of X rays, in electronics. Upon it is based the whole science of quantum (wave) mechanics...
...photon (smallest unit of radiant energy) is equal to the frequency of the wave multiplied by Planck's constant h (6.55 X 10(-27)erg-seconds...
...expressions of disapproval soon turned into laughter when some of the "definitions" were flashed on the screen. "Cosine is the opposite of stop sign. An erg is an urge. A millimeter is a bug with a large number of legs." Many members of the class were heard to say when leaving that some of Ufford's experiments were infinitely more amusing, recalling the time to whipped out an umbrella from behind the table to shield himself during one of the wetter ones...