Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great is the delight of that diligent ichthyologist. Dr. William Beebe, when his deep-sea dredgings bring to light a perfect specimen of a rare fish. Diligent Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, last week had a similar sensation. Out of the depths of industry he brought wriggling to the surface as tight a little group of patent holders as his monopoly investigation could desire...
...flywheel. In fluid drive the flywheel is equipped not with a disk, but with a sort of water wheel. Facing the blades of this water wheel is a similar set of blades on the transmission shaft. The two sets of blades are enclosed in a sealed compartment filled with light oil. As the flywheel gathers speed, the blades attached to it set the oil in motion, and the moving oil drives the opposite set of blades. These in turn rotate the transmission gears and, through them, the drive shaft and the wheels. A fluid drive automobile can be braked...
...American scientists . . . hold fast to their conviction, that . . . science is wholly independent of national boundaries and races and creeds and can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom. ... It is in this light that we publicly condemn the fascist position towards science. The racial theories which they advocate have been demolished time and again. We need only point to the work of Heinrich Hertz in physics, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory...
...bargain. Later in Depression the bargain seemed less evident, but The Limited Editions Club flourished just the same. The reason was George Macy. A publisher before he was out of Columbia University, Macy had sold 11,000 copies of an anthology of F. P. A.'s light verse, organized his own firm, Macy-Masius. In 1928 he sold out to head the Vanguard Press, his last connection with plain publishing...
...Student Forum," left-wing British student publication, which furnishes this information, discloses that the Light Blue has already raised $2,000, running a poor second to Oxford which has contributed $6000. All the large English universities appear to be competing...