Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Einstein world is a great "field" which has height, breadth, depth and time as its elements. Measuring those four elements requires a new kind of geometry?fourth dimensional geometry, Einstein geometry. It is infinitely more complicated than Euclidean geometry taught at high schools and colleges...
...exactly the same moment. Such is an effect of gravity. Isaac Newton described the effect well with his laws of gravity. Albert Einstein did better with his general theory of relativity. He found a metric (a measure) with which he could subdivide practically everything that happened in his fourth dimensional world. It was a theoretical measuring unit invented by Georg F. B. Riemann (1826-66), mathematician...
Members of the New York Stock Exchange last week approved, 782 to 133, their Board of Governors' plan to increase the Exchange membership from 1,100 to 1,375 (TIME, Feb. 4). Since the increase adds 25% to the membership, each present member has a one-fourth interest in a new seat, or, in other words, each present member now owns five-fourths of a membership. The prospective purchaser of an Exchange seat may therefore acquire membership in one of the following three ways...
According to an announcement made yesterday, 18 students, in their third and fourth years at the Harvard Medical School, have been awarded scholarships. Recipients of 17 scholarships in the Dental School were also made...
...partial cooperation, even within its limits, can never be fully effective; second, beyond this cooperation is a large area of international life where American interests are not represented at all: third, America's positive temperament will not long be satisfied with anything but complete and business like methods; and fourth, through such evolution America can best make her contribution to world progress...