Word: objects
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a way that he could time its velocity with a telechron clock. At 13 m.p.h. the path of the artificial fly was already a blur, at 26 m.p.h. it was barely visible, at 43 m.p.h. the direction of rotation could not be told, and at 64 m.p.h. the object was entirely invisible. Comparing the appearance of his artificial fly while in motion with Dr. Townsend's descriptions. Dr. Langmuir concluded that a good estimate of the deer botfly's speed was 25 m.p.h...
...scientific adventure rather than romantic has been the object of his cruises in the wake of Charles Darwin's Beagle. Allan Hancock is credited with at least two discoveries-the fish Aganostomus hancocki Seale and the lizard Diploglossus hancocki (Slevin). Among the prodigious animals he brought back last week...
Association or federal union of Austria with Germany on "equal" terms had been the dream of most Austrians since the War, and for this Kurt von Schuschnigg had worked until as a Christian he became convinced that the Nazis at root are brutal pagans whose object is subjugation of Christian Austria. In speaking of Germans apart from Nazis, Christian Kurt von Schuschnigg up to a few weeks ago was still repeating, "We are good Germans, but always true Austrians!"-for the average Austrian thinks of himself as "German" in blood and soul...
...Work is to improve the world for posterity; the modern way of life is the identification of self with the Work of the world. The unity of work transcends in importance the labor of the individual. Thus in this period the person cannot become eternal; only the idea or object towards which he contributes his self may live forever. The Soul is no more; by the knives of science and materiality it has been dissected to nothing...
Your article referred to my highways passing through large cities in order to get votes. I am a good sport; I don't object to that reference at all-as I know an article must have a little spice in it-but the fact of the matter is, as you will see on page 4 of my Highway Bill attached, that it specifically states in my bill, "and shall not pass through any cities or towns unless there is no other place for the road...