Word: pendulum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statue is an estimate of the effect, beneficial or deleterious, which the ADAM may have on the average person's attitude towards the art has crawled out of the precarious position it occupied during the nineteenth century, a position between the pit of conservative morality and the pendulum of progressive realism, certain fundamental questions are still unanswered. We find ourselves still confronted with the time-worn, but nevertheless basic, problems. Shall we accept brutal, brazen phases of the world as art on a par with the more pleasant and morally pure aspects of our existence? Is there any difference between...
...from Rhode Island's pipe-smoking scion William H. Vanderbilt to Minnesota's boyish Harold Stassen, keynote of the gubernatorial inaugurations popping over the land last week was the return of Republicanism-epitomized by Wisconsin's "hardheaded" Julius Peter Heil. But in one State the political pendulum swung far to the Left. That was moonkissed California where Culbert Levy Olson, 62, started his State's first Democratic administration in 44 years. Governor Olson celebrated by pardoning the most famed prisoner...
Hooke's Cells. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) probably suffered from a mild case of paranoia. A brilliant British scientist, he had many ideas, carried few of them through to solid achievement. He invented a wheel barometer, conceived the idea of using a pendulum as a measure of gravity, helped famed Robert ("Boyle's Law") Boyle make his air pump. He clearly conceived the motion of heavenly bodies as a mechanical problem, but his conception was almost obliterated in the glory of Isaac Newton's formulation of the gravity laws. He was jealous of Newton, made violent attacks...
...illustration of the famous pendulum swing was brought forth when Holcombe stated: "The history of American polities shows that decisive turns in the fortunes of the major parties should be expected at Presidential elections rather than at off-year Congressional elections...
...every History 1 student knows after the final lecture, history is like a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. At one time, the Scholastics tried unit. In modern times we have swung too far in the other direction, for learning is now concentrated in small, widely-separated, ultra-specialized fields. Subjects which have natural connections, e.g., government and history, have been unnaturally separated into water-tight compartments. And because all communication has been cut off between him and his neighbors, each specialist has become less efficient and less productive. Obviously, it is necessary to start in the other...