Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...origin and development...
...into a perfect electrical insulator by purification. Inasmuch as pure air is a non-conductor of electricity unless ionized, it was found that a hitherto unknown agency accomplished that ionization with increasing intensity as the altitude above sea level was increased. It was concluded, therefore, that the electrifying agency originated outside the Earth; it was accordingly determined to ascertain the nature of the so called cosmic rays, and one of the first essentials to be determined in their study is their origin...
...petition concerning the extension of student waiters to the Houses, was placed on the bulletin board of the Union yesterday afternoon and late last night had received 30 signatures. The petition is of unknown origin, and requests the signatures of all who "favor, or at least do not oppose the extension of student waiters in the Douses on the ground that in this emergency some method must be devised to secure work for students needing financial aid." A reminder that official action is under consideration at the present time is affixed to the petition, and the majority of the signers...
...exercise any dramatic talent, for they possess none. Their whole efforts are centered upon walking impressively back and forth across the screen in parts which have been selected especially for them, parts which they can act because sympathetic to their own nature. Both stories are of back origin, both leading characters are but puppets, and if one movie is less bad than the other it is so only because its direction and photography are less uninspired...
...story of TIME'S origin and growth is pretty well known, especially to all of us at this memorial ceremony. But I am not sure the underlying conception of the Newsmagazine, so far as Brit Hadden was concerned, is so well known. He phrased it, as he phrased everything, with arresting bluntness. He said: 'People talk too much about things they don't know.' As a boy in school, as a man in college, he felt that general information, the simplest, central facts about all sorts of subjects in which people were interested, from American History...