Word: licked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Einstein theory in respect to the bending of a ray of star light as it passes near the gravitational field of the sun has been verified to the utmost satisfaction of all scientists by the recent measurement of the photographic plates taken by the Lick Observatory Expedition to Australia in the fall of 1922", said Professor H. T. Stetson in commenting on the recently published results of the solar eclipse expedition of 11922, sent under the auspices of the Lick Observatory to Wallal in northwester Australia, a point on the path of totality...
...Profiting by the mistakes of this expedition the Lick Observatory in California prepared for many months its expedition. W. W. Campbell was made director. The first action was that of photographing that region of the sky in which the sun would be three months later...
...September 21, the day of the eclipse, the plates were returned to California and measured with an unquestionable precision. Five-sixths of the plates have been measured at the present time, and inasmuch as no great difference of displacement is expected in the remainder of the plates, the Lick Observatory will not again verify the theory at the total solar eclipse which sweeps Mexico and Lower California next fall...
...consolation to say that the first can beat the second and the second the third. Ma can lick Billie and Pa can lick Ma, but that does not mean that Pa can lick Dempsey. For the past three years the crew squad has been composed of some of the best material in the east, and yet there have been no victories worth the name. Objection has, however, been quashed by the well meaning sentiment "Give them a chance." But opportunities have come and gone, and if affairs continue to take the same course there will this year be a reduplication...
...however, the weight of evidence, as well as the opinion of the majority of intellectuals, seems to be in favor of Einstein. The Lick photographs, partly confirmed by those taken at the same place...