Word: hovers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to fall against a rising air current are likely to break up and take a positive charge. Reduced in size they are blown upward again, rising less rapidly than the negative air and spray. Their charge makes them coalesce again until they are large and heavy enough to hover for an instant, then begin to drop again. As the process continues, the raindrops become heavily loaded with positive electricity, while the rising air carries negative electricity to the top of the cloud. A lightning flash results...
...terms of the new rates are fair enough. Abandoning the old "maximum plan," which counted in extra meals only to the $10.50 mark, may excite some opposition, but it can be regarded as a just measure to help support the lowered rates. Whatever halo may still hover over the roof of Lehman Hall is quickly dissipated by a consideration of the means utilized literally to compel men to sign for the twenty-one meal ticket. Twenty-one meals a week will cost nine dollars; fourteen meals would be priced at $.7.75. Between the two limits one finds seven meals...
...Emmaus is carved on the front face of the capital to the left of the Madonna and Child statue. Christ is here seen holding the Resurrection Cross as he meets the two disciples who carry pilgrim's staffs. The Resurrection Cross has been badly damaged. Above on either side hover angels of extraordinary beauty. The one to the left rises from a foliage design on the left face, and the one on the right from the walls of a village, perhaps Emmaus, depicted on the right face of the capital. Three windows are in the wall of Emmaus...
...more than 34 years, be came the Senate's librarian. When Jim Preston, son of an oldtime New York Herald correspondent, took over the gallery, there were 150 newsmen, with one telephone and no typewriters, covering such Senate giants as Allison, Sherman, Quay, Bacon, Platt. Today 368 correspondents hover in the gallery where Jim Preston has been a sort of Queen Bee. His job: contact man between Senate & Press. He knows and remembers facts, figures, faces, dates, data & doings. When does Senator Borah speak next? What did the Finance Committee do last week? When did the first Muscle Shoals...
Undoubtedly much of what Mr. Hover said is true. There are many fine small colleges which were founded upon and have maintained the soundest educational beliefs and traditions. Few institutions are loved as small colleges are loved by their alumni. There is a dignity, a personality, an intimacy which pervades such schools as Williams, Amherst or Bowdoin that is conductive to sincere affection...