Word: pendulums
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Consider the pendulum! For some time that of the Student Council has hung motionless, but suddenly it has begun to swing, and on its first sweep severs two Gordian knots...
...land marks -will permit them to fly high above such storms as caused Pearson's death. One device is a lateral level indicator., showing whether the plane is flying on a level keel or not, even when there is no horizon or land to refer to. A pendulum or a bubble level will not correctly indicate a true vertical line, when subject to the air disturbances a plane must inevitably meet. A spinning top, once vertical, will stay with its axis vertical no matter how disturbed. So will a gyroscope. By a simple adaptation of the gyroscope, driven...
...country men were morose, talked gloomily of poor crops, unemployment, low farm prices, agricultural depression (particularly in the Southwest) the European situation, the "political rampage" of the Mid-West farmers. The country men expected, however, a swing of the pendulum. They sought no legislation...
...student to cover nearly all branches of human knowledge and to be proficient in several of the arts. As the generations passed, however, and as the mass of intellectual and scientific discovery increased, this 'omniscience became more and more difficult, until in our day it is quite impossible. The pendulum has swung to the other extreme. Omniscience, quite rightly, is no longer a virtue; if seriously attempted it leads too often to superficiality, and superficiality is as far from the truth as the statement of the specialist who said that the downfall of Napoleon was entirely due to the economic...
Violently and quickly is the political pendulum swinging. A vital change comes in the policy of the Russian Government, a conservative reaction sweeps England, a Liberal ministry, is overthrown in Germany, a black-shirted dictator arises in Italy. Is the pendulum tending toward equilibrium again or is it becoming magnetized? And in that event on which side is the magnet...