Word: expounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond knows one way in which he can free himself from the atmosphere of red brick. He can go to the Fogg Lecture Room at eleven this morning and hear Prof. Edgell expound the glories of French Gothic. He has been to this group of lectures on Gothic before, and he will doubtless go again, for if he should ever grow weary of the text of the lecture he will never tire of the slides which illustrate...
...performed in 1887. Last week two men announced that they had rechecked that experiment, obtained opposite results. One man, Dr. Dayton Clarence Miller, had made 175,000 more readings of his interferometer at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. His results showed a definite ether drift, which he will expound in April at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. In Germany, the other ether detector. Dr. Georg Joos, professor of theoretical physics at Jena University, reported that he had obtained a negative result, upheld Dr. Einstein...
...Within the next fortnight Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson will, according to a State Department hint, expound in a public speech this treaty, which the U. S. never signed...
...teaches its warriors the virtue of utility, simple methods. Modern architects expound the same virtues. Perhaps the fact that many of them fought in the World War is significant. In November 1918, John Wellborn Root, Captain with the U. S. Engineer Corps in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, was wounded near Nancy. John Augur Holabird, later to become his architectural partner, was a West Pointer, served as Major and later as Lieutenant Colonel of Field Artillery...
...continuing to expound the benefits of her art, the palmist explained that if one's hands are in a deplorable condition, foretelling only the darkest of future events, there is easy access to the medium of Astrology which might very likely afford a more favorable report. As a last resort this clever person can with equal skill turn to card reading...