Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Langmuir clinched his argument by making an artificial botfly of solder (one centimetre long, one-half centimetre thick), whirling this on a string in 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...
Last week Musician-Prince Frederik gave way to an old passion, strode to the stage of Copenhagen's Royal Opera House during a rehearsal, conducted the orchestra through the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony and the Overture to Wagner's Meistersinger...
...less than the palsied hand which jumbled the Herald Tribune's fateful headline, our own pen trembles as it records the treason of Administration demagogues. One shudders to think what will come next from the New Dealers whose despotic path has led them to degrade the Father of His country. No palliative, not even the soothing words of a Clay, can smooth over such an affront to national patriotism. In no time at all the Mayflower Society, D.A.R., and W.C.T.U. will be at Mr. Farley's Democratic throat...
...author, while emphasizing the accomplishments under President Cardenas, admits that the agrarian reform has still a long path to go. In the meantime, we are assured, the former peons "now labor with new ferver and a boundless faith to wrost from the unhewn rocks of the past the Mexico of the future...
...Obstacles in the path of an effective trade agreement between the United States and Britain are the Ottawa agreements of 1932 which (1 bound England not to raise the tariffs, 2 established preferential tariffs between Britain and her Dominions, 3 bound Britain not to buy anything from the U. S. she could get from Canada, 4 restored free trade to Britain and her Dominions, 5 bound Britain not to enter into any international agreement without the consent of her Dominions...