Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy does not run counter to the interests of France. "Italy has no future in the west and north!" he cried. "Her future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa. The vast resources of Asia must be valorized, and Africa must be brought within the orbit of civilization. . . . We demand that the nations which have already arrived in Africa do not block at every step Italian expansion...
...interludes of recognizable poetry are rarer, the shorthand economic diatribes more frequent. Hopeful speculators who try to plot the curve of Poet Pound's current issue will be sadly shaken as it zooms from the 18th Century to the 20th, bumps down to the 15th, changes its orbit as unpredictably as a wayward electron. Speculators may not get far with Poet Pound, but steady observers will note a contemptuously indignant attitude toward civilization in general, bigwigs in particular, will note also a powerfully satiric effect...
...unconsciousness preceding death. In "No, No, Go Not to Lethe," Mr. Babcock, the hero, derives complete satisfaction and pleasure from imagining what goes on in the minds of other people. When the possibility arises that someone will do the same to him, his little world rocks crazily on its orbit...
...order of the universe and Doctor Bok successfully and interestingly presents the necessary minimum in Astronomy 1. The lectures and reading cover the mechanisms of the physical universe from the atom to the galaxy while the laboratory work concerns itself with the more mechanical problems such as orbit determination and star distribution. With a knowledge of algebra and trigonometry the student should find this course one of the more pleasant ways of fulfilling his science requirement while those taking mathematical training will find the course of average difficulty. The work will be facilitated next year by the further development...
...partly self-luminous. What element made it so? Not knowing, they called it "coronium." As recently as last year, in a standard work on eclipses, "coronium" was treated with respect. The Menzel-Boyce report unmasks it as mostly oxygen in bizarre atomic metamorphoses. The normal oxygen atom has eight orbital electrons. Menzel & Boyce proceeded to imagine oxygen atoms in such a state of excitation that electrons could skip freely from one orbit to another. Such excited atoms, according to quantum theory, should have energy levels differing from each other by precise amounts. Drs. Menzel & Boyce expressed a number of these...