Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of this, the report issued yesterday by the Cambridge Teachers' Union is a manifesto for educational democracy. In its very essence it is a plea for democratization of the procedures of appointment and tenure. This plea takes practical form in proposals that all members of each department, from instructors to full professors, form a voting body, that they elect their own chairman, that they select by vote a democratic committee on appointments which shall make all recommendations...
...Stead was now over the sea and, with 20 gallons of gas left-enough to keep him aloft only another twenty minutes-he was told his position was off the Point Reyes light. By now the dispatcher was running the plane. He told Stead there was a rough beach and a bench (level ground above a beach) behind the light...
...fashioned jovialities as pointing out the difference between a major and a minor poet: "Any poem starting with 'And when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long Scribner's article about the problem of the unruly child to the two words...
...laboratories will be open for inspection: the new photo-elasticity laboratory, in which polarized light is used to record conditions of stress in celluloid models of engineering structures; and the material-testing laboratory, in which metals and other substances are subjected to tremendous pulls, squeezes, and clips, under the eye of recording equipment...
...Cruft laboratory, Harvard's famed center for research in communication engineering, are the experiments on sound, radio transmission, phonograph recording, and light, characteristics. Here is the station which maintains continuous automatic shortwave radio communication with Troy, N. Y. in an investigation of the ionosphere, the little understood deep-blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth a hundred or so miles from the ground and enable long-distance wireless communication...