Word: pendulum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neck & Neck. The pendulum seems to be swinging toward the Liberals. The question now is whether it will swing all the way. Diefenbaker, who won a sweeping electoral victory in 1958, holds 203 of the 265 seats in Parliament. His Tories could now lose 70 seats, and he would still have a majority. The Liberals, who have only 51 seats, and hold not one single seat in a province west of Ontario, could pick up 81 more seats and still not be able to form a government. As of last week, when a generally listless campaign came awake with lively...
...science that Karl Barth pursues gets its subject matter from God; but it would fail, he says, if it did not serve the community of men the way a pendulum serves a clock. Barth's theological output is so vast that only a handful of men have ever read all his works. But for those willing to try them, his books offer wisdom and wit as well. A sampler of Barth's views...
...Dicke does not propose to use any ordinary gravitational clock, such as a clock with a pendulum. He thinks that an earth satellite can be made to move in such a way that gas drag and light pressure will not affect its orbit. Such a satellite will, in effect, be a gravitational clock, its period of revolution around the earth governed by gravitational pull...
...problems will be matching last year's record turnover of $60 million in the face of government belt tightening. Garrels feels that the British economy "lacks fat." Says he: "Whenever it gets rolling, the government steps in to control it. It's just like pushing a pendulum at the wrong time...
...story, by Colette, has a Hans Christian Andersen simplicity: a naughty child, in a harlequin rage, rips up the furniture, twists the cat's tail, yanks the clock's pendulum and exults: "I'm free-naughty and free." In the second scene, the animals gather to threaten the child, forgive him only after he has come to the aid of an injured squirrel...