Word: insti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...threw the tests entirely askew. Dr. Pease and Assistant Pearson did not say flatly that the speed of light could no longer be regarded as a constant. "The observed irregularities," they said, "are unexplained and their elucidation apparently will require more sensitive apparatus." Albert Einstein, at Princeton's Insti tute for Advanced Study, foresaw no need of revising his relativity theory, spoke of deformations in the earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should be "most interesting from a geophysics standpoint." Harvard Observatory's Director Harlow Shapley thought the results were due entirely to the relationship...
...makes in the ice. Warrant for the trip's success lies in Explorer Wilkins' caution, courage, foresight and ability, proved repeatedly through his explorations by sled, ship and plane. Scientific approbation of the proposed submarine excursion comes from the American Geographical Society, the Carnegie Institution, the Norwegian Geographical Insti- tution, the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History...
Index to the probable disintegration was the resignation, as chairman of the Insti-ute, of Colonel John H. Price, president of Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., large producers of newsprint. Said he: "I have become convinced that the expressed purposes of the Institute and my efforts to accomplish them have been and are defeated by the unwillingness of members to conform to either the spirit or the terms of their mem- bership agreement...