Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Raymond Pearl believes that in the 17th Century, world population began to rise from a relatively static figure of about 450,000,000. Now it is approximately 2,100,000,000-an average density of some 40 persons to the square mile. Dr. Pearl has constructed a "logistic" curve following the population rise of the past three centuries. If this curve is not skewed by some worldwide catastrophe, if it continues to follow its geometric destiny, it will go on rising, but more slowly, and will flatten out some 160 years hence at a population figure...
Oklahoma's longwinded Thomas led off for the Administration. Senator Borah was to follow him, Leader Barkley to conclude. Mr. Borah looked worried as the gentleman from Oklahoma droned on & on, about his favorite theme: printing press money. But Mr. Barkley remained serene even when Senator Thomas used up all his side's time and Messrs. Borah & Barkley could not speak...
...William James once observed, "there were instead of military conscription a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow. . . . Our gilded youth [would be] drafted off according to their choice [of work assignments] to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas...
...effect the order did C. I. O. two great favors: 1) guarded against wage slashes which might otherwise follow the wholesale price cuts precipitated last year by unionized U, S. Steel; 2) turned competitive heat upon non-union Little Steel companies, wiping out some of their economic reasons for refusing to sign with...
...their flash, they place a spark gap close to the gun's muzzle so that the bullet passes just below the electrodes. The hot gases and burning powder which follow the bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...