Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refusal of the University to allow Harvard's major football games to be broadcast next fall deserves serious and careful attention. By refusing to permit this broadcasting, the University is deliberately throwing an obstacle in the path that it had so wisely chosen to follow. These broadcasts would bring in a substantial sum each year which could be added to the present Athletic Endowment Fund. The addition of this money to the Endowment Fund is not to be lightly rejected, as Harvard's other major and minor sports cannot depend upon football's gate receipts forever. The sooner that athletics...
...Japanese people are commonly a mild-mannered people. . . . From ancient times, mendicant priests have carried a shakujo, or staff, to the top of which are affixed clanging metal rings. By striking it on the ground they would frighten away worms and insects that might be in their path to prevent trampling upon them. And even modern universities hold memorial services for animals dissected in the study of anatomy in the medical schools...
...current Physical Review Dr. Street undertakes to answer the mass question-approximately, not exactly. He took 1,000 photographs of cosmic ray activity in a "cloud chamber," an apparatus in which water vapor condenses in the path of ionizing particles as droplets of fog which can be photographed. Dr. Street rigged his apparatus so that the condensing value would operate not instantly when an ionizing particle passed through, but one second later. This allowed the fog tracks to spread a little, enabling him to get a better count of the droplets...
...crux of the story is Mr. Howard's attempt to reform himself and tread the primrose path with Miss Davis. He starts his reformation by walking out on her their wedding night. His idea is to show his new strength of character by purposely disillusioning the romantically inclined Miss De Havilland. In the course of the proceedings, Mr. Howard successively insults her family, makes biting remarks about her moles, acts as a drunkard, but all to no avail. Miss De Havilland is exceedingly difficult to disillusion...
...speed, fatigue, and inattention, all closely related. "Speed, especially when too fast for the conditions of night driving or stormy weather, often sends the car off the highway at a sharp curve. It is responsible for the killing of many pedestrians because the motorist out-drives the lighted path of his headlights...