Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps it is fortunate that the theory didn't come earlier. We might have lost two very convenient lines of verse if Fitz-James had realized that his rock was shifting from its firm base at that very minute. And Juliet might have spoken more respectfully of "the inconstant moon"--which is now, by its very inconstancy, shown to be the villain in the piece, exciting supposedly immovable earth to the most unsettling twitches and tremors...
...connection with these investigations of the sun's surface, we have made arrangements with Station WBBM of Chicago for nightly measurement of the intensity of radio reception with a view to ascertaining just what effect these electrical storms, which might be compared to cyclones or hurricanes on the earth, have on the strength of the radio waves. By comparing the graphs of the sun spots and the radio reception we were gratified to discover that, invariably, as the number and intensity of sunspots increased, radio reception grew worse, until, at the peak of the period of sun spot activity, called...
Some day, perhaps, a companion volume will be written. It might be a sort of Who's Who in two parts: 1) sketches of famed U. S. people, according to the opinion of the average U. S. inhabitant, or rather according to the composite opinion of the majority of average U. S. inhabitants; 2) accurate, factual sketches of these same famed U. S. people, written by competent, unbiased observers...
...private owners of some public utility, the suppliers of gas, bringers of electric light, should want their ownership to continue, might they not teach school children that such ownership was beneficent? Here and there they might juggle a paragraph in a textbook adopted throughout the land. They might now and again send inconspicuous checks to school teachers who preached that private ownership was public weal, State ownership "Bolshevism." When the school children reached maturity and taxpaying, they would accept private ownership of public utilities as matter of course...
...John Pierpont Morgan who is now Chairman of the U. S. Steel Board. The appointment of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont to the U. S. Steel Finance Committee, last week, further italicized the Morgan sense of responsibility for U. S. Steel and gave rise to rumors that Mr. Lamont might succeed Mr. Morgan to the board chairmanship...