Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michelson started the machinery of his tube. It was high time. Death was crowding him closely, might at any stroke get under his guard. Dr. Michelson tightened all his energies. When Albert Einstein, whose theories grew out of the Michelson light measurements, was at Pasadena, he noted how frail and nerve wrought Dr. Michelson was. But no one could keep him from his work, not his wife, nor his four children, nor associates. He worked feverishly. His nerves broke down. He dared not travel between cottage and tube. Yet Fred Pearson, his long time assistant, and Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease...
...tensely quiet session saw frail Laborite Philip Snowden cow the entire phalanx of Conservative M. P.'s. The Chancellor demanded that his radical proposal for a levy of nearly % on the capital value of land (TIME, May 4) be included in the Finance Bill this year, although the levy will not be made for two years at least. By this technical maneuver Mr. Snowden sought to make his project a "money bill" and thus not subject to veto by the House of Lords, sure to veto it otherwise...
...woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...
...famed dying cry of Pheidippides, who bore the news of the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Like many marathoners, Henigan, 39, has outraced his own youth. He has been a long distance runner for 20 years. He is frail, short, has brown hair and a pert expression which long ago gave journalists a peg to hang him on: "Smiling Jimmy." He was on the Olympic cross-country team of 1924 and the Olympic 10,000 metre team...
Incognito, and with scarcely more pomp than surrounds the movements of J. P. Morgan for whom a private gangplank, etc. is always provided, Siam's somewhat frail King will spend some three months in the U. S. taking what would be called in Europe "the cure...