Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aviators themselves. They will start "when practicable." Weatherbound so far, they are marooned in a hotel at Reykjavik, Iceland, studying their maps, receiving a large mail from admirers in the U. S., and not at all worried. They feel sure they will get through and time is no object. In the meantime, the Navy has been coöperating in wonderful fashion. The supply ship Gertrude Rask finally broke through the ice to Angmagsalik, on the south coast of Greenland, but found the clear space in the harbor too small and ice-infested for the fliers to land there...
...question has often been raised in this country, but no rule nas been set up. . . . The news picture is the best possible description of a person or an event in the news . . . tells the story at a glance. . . . People who are unfortunate in personal appearance often object to picture publicity, and their wishes are respected. Pictures of deformed persons, or persons shown in distressing circumstances rarely appear, except when such publication is believed to be a genuine service . . . as in the case of criminals...
...money to obtain the best equipment, both in men and material, for experimental purposes. One of the men is the famous Physics Prof. Albert Abraham Michelson, who not so long ago measured the star, Betelgeuse, although he has other equally famous research and theories to his credit. The object of this new experiment is best explained in the words which one of the experimenting physicists used to simplify the idea of the experiment for the understanding of the press...
...object of the experiment is to determine whether or not two beams of light, traveling in opposite directions around the rectangle, require exactly the same time to complete the circuit. The system of mirrors at the four corners of the rectangle constitutes an interferometer ?which is one of the most celebrated inventions of Prof. Michelson?and will make it possible to compare the time required for the two beams of light to make the circuit...
...preacher, later bishop, and his friend Lewis Miller, mowing-machine maker. The little band reassembled the next year and the next and many more. Their numbers grew. The original program of religious contemplation grew, reached out into other fields of human interest - Music, Education, Art, Politics. Each year the object was to make Chautauqua a richer, more color ful, more "improving" experience. As decades passed, "Chautauqua" became a word of many meanings. It meant, as well as the parent gathering and the name of a lake, town and county in New York, a great many similar gatherings in all parts...