Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applying Case 1 to Earth it is necessary to alter the globe to some extent. We must imagine it a perfect sphere, devoid of any flattening at the poles, devoid of hills, dales. On such a sphere the gravitational pull at any two points equidistant from the surface is equal. If we further assume that this sphere is a charged body the electrical forces will everywhere be symmetrical. These conditions exist approximately on Earth. To such a sphere and to the two pairs of forces acting on it the parent field equations of Einstein were applied, found to bear...
They are at present only on the first lap of their journey which will take them half way around the globe. Thus far the western team has been favored by audience decisions in most of the debates they have entered...
...Blake watched Manhattan crowds going to see The Last Mile, smash hit play based on a document written by her son Robert the week before he was electrocuted in a Texas prison for murder last year. She did not enter the theatre. Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo News-Globe (TIME, March 17) had sent her Manhattan to claim, royalties on the play...
Death kept Apache Chief Talkalai from the celebration. Aged 113, he died comfortably in his bed at Globe the day Citizen Coolidge arrived. An old friend of white men, Talkalai had served as scout years ago for a young Army lieutenant named John Joseph Pershing assigned to the Indian post of San Carlos, once an Apache capital, now submerged under Coolidge Lake...
Because Edward Hugh Sothern, 70-year-old Shakespearean trouper, refused to be interviewed by reporters from the Amarillo, Tex., News-Globe, editor Gene Howe, irascible critic of Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, June n, 1928, April i, 19-29) referred to Actor Sothern as a "pink-toed high-hatter." Advised the News-Globe: "Don't pay any of your good money to see him." From the stage, Actor Sothern announced that he was returning to the management the $500 he was to receive for the performance, saying: "My toes are not pink. This is the worst thing that...