Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus there were but two alternatives from which Professor Mather had to chose: to accede to President Conant's request, or to hand in his resignation. "I chose the former" he stated, "not through any fear of economic loss if I were to give up my salary as a Harvard professor, but for the following reasons...
This young couple's problem of incompatibility has been cleverly handled by Eager, who has brought to the stage a group of gay, interesting characters. They are as much at a loss to understand Ann's serious-minded husband, as poor David is to fathom them...
...great deal of the light and heat of the sun in lost at the surface of the ocean, and the scientists were unable to account for this so called surface loss. Whether this loss was due to faulty instruments, or what caused it if it did exist, was a question which greatly interested the men at the Oceanographic Station...
...order to measure the amount of light which was reflected from the surface, and what percentage of the total loss this caused, a floating tower was decided upon...
...instruments recorded important data before the collapse. Dr. Clarke proved conclusively that the amount of light which was reflected back up again from the surface of the water did not account for the loss of light which had been found. The only possible explanation of this was that the of light was absorbed in the thousands of tiny bubbles which exist in the top layer of ocean water