Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life insurance to the casually trained; comeback, while genuinely native, has too verbal a connotation and is associated in the American sport-lover's memory with too many disappointed has-beens to be very useful. And the current American Recovery, plus the myriad full-circle swings of the pendulum of popular interest in this always amazing country, may well provide many situations where the use of Jimplecute would be most...
This seismograph is rugged enough to withstand severe quakes close to the observatory-an important consideration in California. An accurate time record of the earthquake waves is also important, however, and pendulum clocks of high accuracy are likely to be thrown out of kilter by strong temblors originating nearby. Dr. Benioff has now devised what he calls an "earthquake resistant time- piece"- a clock driven by a 1,000-cycle tuning fork, which is in turn driven by a fourstage amplifier. This apparatus is accurate to one-tenth of a second per day and Dr. Benioff was sure last week...
With long, pendulum-like swings of the arm and huge, rhythmic rockings of her body from the heels up, Conductor Sundstrom carried chorus and orchestra through excerpts from Wagner's Tannhauser, Elgar's King Olaf, Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since...
...Pendulum v. River. Lest Britain's ruling class be lulled into false security by the National Government's election victory, good for another five years, The Illustrated London News made graphically the point that since 1900 the Labor or Socialist vote has grown in the United Kingdom from a trickle to a stream to a great river. This illustration (see cut) was meant to correct the comfortable error of many Britons who are wont to speak of "the pendulum" of votes swinging alternately to Right and Left but always tending to subside in the Middle. This error...
...made better looking. Instead, Lugosi makes him uglier still, enslaves him by promising to do a better job next time. Spurned by the girl and reproached by her father, Lugosi decides to torture them to death with such a Poetic device as a slowly descending, knife-blade pendulum. In the end he is thwarted by Karloff who chooses to be shot rather than let Miss Ware be crushed to death in a room whose walls are slowly coming together...