Word: fluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Europe. Prior to the War the alliance system maintained a rigid balance of power and alignments and commitments were definite and static, whereas today the existence of large intangible factors like Russia and Italy and the general untrustworthiness of alliances leaves the diplomatic arrangements in a state of flux. The situation is analagous to that in Europe just before 1870, before the ententes had been solidified and policy definitely formulated. The unrest in the Balkans is merely the reflection of this greater uncertainly in the West. The small nations southeast of Vienna consequently vacillate timidly between France and Italy...
...Orange and Black have an average team in the field this season, and Carr hopes to avoid repeating the deadlock of last year. In 1932 the Crimson tied three games in a row, and the flux was still, working last Friday when Harvard tied the Big Green...
...than a scientist, Interpreter Sullivan puts his meaty subject in a nutshell, then cracks the nut. In no uncertain terms, Author Sullivan states the findings, seekings, final uncertainty of modern science. From Pythagoras to Einstein he traces its development: from philosophy through magic and materialism to its present indeterminate flux. Modern scientists, says Sullivan, are really estheticians in disguise. Science's chief fascination to them is "because it provides the contemplative imagination with objects of great esthetic charm." To take Science as a religion is a mistaken act of faith from which agnostics have still to recover. Science...
Stations in the farflung line will use identical instruments, to measure wind currents on Earth and high above, to observe clouds and Northern Lights. They must study sunshine, moonshine, skyshine. They will take the temperature of air, earth, water. They will detect characteristics of the Earth's magnetic flux. New will be the research into the nature of radio reception everywhere...
From New Zealand's not quite so handsome Chief Delegate Joseph Gordon Coates a similar blast was momentarily expected. But with the entire Conference in a state of preparatory flux the Mother Country quietly managed to keep her end up. She wangled her Secretary for War, Viscount Hailsham (famed when he was Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg), into chairmanship of the Conference's first and most important working group: the Committee on Empire Trade Promotion...