Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter to the committee appointed by the Council to present the matter to him, Dean Hanford wrote that he had referred the question to the Administrative Board and that it was of the opinion that such a power would be unenforceable and unwise. "The tradition at Harvard," said Dean Hanford, "has been largely that of laissez-faire in regard to the policies and actions of organizations so far as those policies and actions have not affected scholarship and academic standing." He felt that if censorship were to be exercised, it should come from the students themselves through the Council...
...flash lasts a few millionths of a second but years have been spent in building up its strength. Seven years ago the Pittsfield laboratory announced 1,000,000 volts, four years later this figure was doubled. Still the work goes on. The present power, 3,600,000 volts, is the highest ever obtained by man; about 17 times greater than the highest voltage transmission line in this country; and far beyond any voltage produced by natural lightning on transmission lines...
...This is an instrument developed by the General Electric Company at Schenectady and makes use of a beam of electrons which, acting as a pointer, measures- the rise & fall, or wave shape of the voltages. When a wave of lightning encounters an obstruction it builds up to twice its power, just as a wave of water breaking on a wall will splash about twice its height. Therefore a direct voltage of 3,000,000 traveling along a line will suddenly jump to over 5,000,000 volts in & for the brief instant that it strikes the end of the line...
Lawrence Gilman (the Tribune): "Despite the unreconciled and heterogeneous qualities of this score, its lack of any prevailing integrity of style, the music has a power and an eloquence-sombre, granitic, yes 'monumental'-that sweep aside one's reservations and make one helpless before its tyrannous and cumulative onslaught...
...whole days photographing them. (The movies are now being shown on Broadway). Had only one lion attacked them, they could not have escaped death in the general battle which would have ensued. The native porters, watching from a nearby hill became convinced that their masters had a godlike, supernatural power. All this is told perhaps better in Safari, the Johnsons' book, than in Simba, the Johnsons' cinema, currently showing...