Word: manifesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With six days rest since the Dartmouth game last week at Hanover, Coach Wachter's men are in good condition. The week has been devoted to practice aimed to correct the faults that were manifest in that game, principally hurried and inaccurate passing, and several hard and close scrimmages during the week have increased the optimism of the squad for tonight's game...
...away. Its handling has been subject to serious abuses and probable corruption. The time has come to restore this property to its rightful owners. Meanwhile, the critics of American democracy will be left to wonder at the elephantine slowness with which the public conscience is aroused to act in manifest cases of injustice...
Harvard is singularly free from the evils the report deplores, and may smile at the manifest absurdity of attempts to promulgate special beliefs under the guise of dispensing truth. But if Harvard has escaped, it is no less true that many American colleges and universities have not; and their plight is a matter of national concern...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently perfected a device capable of measuring intervals as small as one-billionth of a second. His method, first conceived by Prof. P. O. Pederson of the University of Copenhagen, consists of the employment of the so-called "Lichtenberg Figures"-phenomena which become manifest when an electric wave is reflected from an electrode. When two electrodes are placed side by side at a given angle, these Lichtenberg Figures will meet, coincide-the moment of their coincidence depending upon the time (unimaginably brief) required by the waves in their passage between the electrodes. So large...
...necessary," said Mr. Polk, "for men to hold office in order to engage in politics. In my opinion, it is far better for a young man to manifest interest in his local problems and affairs than to start off with definite opinions and set ideas concerning the League of Nations and such international matters about which his information must necessarily be second-hand...