Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constant, h, is equal to .00000000000000000000000000655 erg-seconds. For any sort of light the energy multiplied by the period of vibration is always equal to h. To a physicist grouping within the atom, h and the quantum mechanics which have grown up around it are as important as bait, hook & line to a fisherman...
...poor score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation in the five following peace years, during which its membership was reduced by one-third. Hook-line-&-sinker the Federation went for the New Deal's NRA, which washed out disastrously under a Supreme Court decision last month. Last week the A. F. of L. was in the midst of another intricate political deal, which promised to turn out no better than average...
...Weyerhaeuser empire, leaving younger brothers Rudolph and Frederick in control at St. Paul. Two of John Philip's sons went to Yale. Of the third generation, these are so far the most outstanding Weyerhaeusers. When Son Frederick got out of college (1917) he nailed a rubber hook to his office door, amused himself at his father's repeated attempts to hang his coat on it. He is now president of Weyerhaeuser Sales Co. John Philip Jr. took to the forests after graduation (1920), started the firm on selective cutting, is now executive vice president of the biggest Weyerhaeuser...
...Manhattan, officials of the Aquarium announced that their electric eel will be tickled with a copper hook, stimulated into lighting a neon bulb in front of its tank, only three times a day, at 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Said Trainer V. W. Coates: "He was glad to light his bulb at first but then he got wise to the wires and refused to shoot juice into them. Now I have to tickle him. If he's feeling right he lights two bulbs...
Waiting on the cobblestones to greet him stood the President of the United States, who presently spoke into a national radio hook-up microphone: "It is no small thing to have filled in another large portion of the map of the world which had hitherto been a blank. It is an equally great achievement to have added valuable information in at least 22 separate branches of science." Then the President of the United States took off his hat and said: "Admiral, I salute you." Then Franklin Roosevelt grasped the Admiral's hand and said: "And let me add just...