Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, last week, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, although continuing to evacuate Hankow and evidently believing he cannot defend it much longer, launched a Chinese offensive at the Japanese in boggy, half-flooded, malarial country near Kiukiang, 135 miles down the Yangtze River below Hankow. Even skeptical foreign observers were inclined to take at face value last week the Chinese claim that this desperate counteroffensive threw the Japanese back for heavy losses on the whole width of a 45-mile salient...
...Today we have once more the best and strongest army in the world. . . . Geneva no longer exists! . . . Germany is again the centre of the world." Nürnberg this week is again the centre of Germany. Each year the swarms of arriving Germans are solemnly given by the Nazi Party, for the better ordering of their emotions, a "Theme." In 1933 the first Parteitag Theme was VICTORY. Next year it was WILL, then FREEDOM, next HONOR and last year LABOR. This week the Theme for Herr Hitler, Frau Ludendorff and all other Germans is GROSSDEUTCHER REICH (Greater Germany...
...thousandth of a second longer than it was a century ago. Although this change has had no effect on clocks, it is highly significant for astronomers. Just before he died last July, venerable, 71-year-old Professor Ernest William Brown of Yale, who spent half a century studying the passage of time, sent the Smithsonian Institution an original hypothesis on the lengthening...
According to mathematicians, the length of the day is determined by the speed of the earth's rotation on its axis. Slower speed means a longer day. According to astronomers, speed of the earth's rotation on its axis is affected by the moon. Reason: the moon pulls the tides, and a strong pull creates friction on the earth's surface, slows down its motion. This well-known fact, said Professor Brown, accounts for slight variations in the day's length, but the moon's influence is not powerful enough to cause such large changes...
...difficulties of the Scripps-Howard papers and the tightening of the Hearst chain (see below) last week brought observers to the conclusion that U. S. chain journalism had passed its zenith. When stronger papers are no longer able to absorb the losses of the weaker papers, the essential strength of a chain is lost. While still under central management, the motto of chains has become: every paper for itself...