Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pest of spectroscopists is "ghosts" or false spectrum lines which appear because the grating is not absolutely perfect. In the Wood gratings the ghost lines are so reduced in strength that they are easy to identify and ignore...
...familiar ghost stalked the corridors of the New York Stock Exchange last week-the question of corporate publicity. Though attacked for years for not showing more gumption in demanding full and frequent reports from listed corporations, the fact remains that, until the New Deal, the Stock Exchange was the only U. S. body, public or private, that consistently and effectively strove to raise the standards of stockholders' statements...
...Senate began to press forward with the Vandenberg resolution to get the facts & figures on AAA's ghost. Secretary Wallace released a scattering of information on large benefit payments. Items...
Meanwhile masons had been busy with the first College building, a vast Greek temple of gleaming white marble for which the Founder had left precise specifications. In 1848 Girard opened its first class of 100 fatherless boys. Within the building, which a hostile press called "The Icy Ghost of Two Million Dollars," a hardboiled staff shaved the orphans' heads, scrubbed their necks, put them through a cheerless routine of study and frequent canings...
...Locarno Pact has been quietly embalmed, but the ghost may walk to plague Britain yet. In such a crisis a conciliatory attitude borders dangerously upon ineffectiveness, and in this case the border has been overstepped. Hitler should feel no more bound to accept this solution than any other which has previously emanated from London. Once again the League has so expertly confused the issue and undermin?...