Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently perfected a device capable of measuring intervals as small as one-billionth of a second. His method, first conceived by Prof. P. O. Pederson of the University of Copenhagen, consists of the employment of the so-called "Lichtenberg Figures"-phenomena which become manifest when an electric wave is reflected from an electrode. When two electrodes are placed side by side at a given angle, these Lichtenberg Figures will meet, coincide-the moment of their coincidence depending upon the time (unimaginably brief) required by the waves in their passage between the electrodes...
...this discovery may be studied a number of arcane reactions which, because of the crudity of moment-measuring contrivances, have never before been accessible to the science of physics. Some of the more obvious of such phenomena are: 1) the difference noticeable in the time of the fall of two bodies of the same shape but of contrasting material, when permitted to fall in a rarified atmosphere; 2) the difference in the time required to transmit sound for a given distance over a radio as compared to a telephone wire...
...sections of the country except the Northwest seem to be participating in these heavy freight loadings. In general, the current record freight movement is taken by students of business to signify great national buying power and a high rate of consumption of goods. As such, the phenomena point to good business conditions in the future...
...reality of spirits. A natural skepticism of the limits of their own ability should be a part of their intellectual make-up, but to strike boldly into a field at which they have previously scoffed bespeaks courses. Ever, stranger is the failure of the mediums to bring with positive, phenomena. They are contending with in audience which is willing to give the medium the benefit of the doubt as far as that is consistent: with scientific accuracy, and yet nothing has been established...
Death is invariably attended by unpleasant physical phenomena which differ but little in most instances and to which physicians become hardily accustomed. Exceptionally unstomachable, however, were those changes accompanying the disease of a certain Mexican woman in Los Angeles, just as the circumstances of her illness had been exceptionally baffling. Dead, she was interred conventionally; husband and friends hacked to the burial. A week later her husband died, the same undiagnosed distemper causing his demise, the same grim disfigurement consequent upon it, as had occasioned, attended, the death of his wife. Each day thereafter was marked- by the death, under...