Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of the Azores, 2200 miles from Newport, was sighted by our tiny vessel in 17 days. On the whole the weather was good, but one bad gulf gale spell was responsible for our going without hot food for four days. We relied almost wholly upon the wind to move our ship, although it was equipped with a small two-cylinder engine, for emergency in calms...
...main thoroughfare between Harvard Square and the Stadium. After 12 o'clock noon tomorrow Harvard Square and Boylston Street will be closed to automobile traffic. Side streets will be roped off and special policemen will be stationed at every intersection to enable the thousands going to the Stadium to move freely along Boylston Street. To eliminate further the crowding on this street, the officials of the Boston Elevated Railway have announced that after 12.30 o'clock tomorrow all subway trains from Boston will carry passengers through Harvard Square to the Stadium station near the Anderson bridge. After the game...
...these times, is in a state of flux. Dissatisfaction, discussion, innovation are rife, and while many mistakes may be made, there is certain to be progress. In fact such progress is already in evidence in the extension of freedom of cuts at the University and at Princeton, a move toward the ideal of education by desire rather than by compulsion. But Columbia has taken the greatest stride of all in its plan, just announced, of abolishing mid-year and final examinations in certain trial courses and perhaps in the near future, all compulsory attendance at classes...
...brought to bear on Premier Poincareé to call two or three new classes to the French Army to prepare for a possible conflict with the growing Nationalist forces of Germany. André Tardieu, leader of the Clemenceau following in the Chamber of Deputies, was foremost in this move, with a threat to overthrow the Ministry if M. Poincaré did not comply...
...ordinary mechanical laws do not account for the stability of the elements under the new theories, for they would not prevent electrons falling into the nucleus. These move in fixed orbits and new ones cannot be created. When atoms are bombarded by free electrons, the electron rebounds or transfers its energy to the atom, in which case there is an emission of light in the spectra. Sir Oliver Lodge, in his installation address as President of the Roentgen Society, London, outlined his own version of atomic theory. The nucleus he believes to be rotating at the speed of light. Surrounding...