Word: precessive
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...nobody should mistake the politics of that precess. For example, Reagan has often preached of the need for mid-range nuclear forces in Europe to prove the effectiveness of the overall U.S. nuclear umbrella in protecting the Western Alliance in the event of some devastating Soviet conventional attack. But the president amended his argument last week merely to get a jump in the pre-Geneva jousting. He said that NATO could do without our theater forces if the Soviets would also cut back. Thus, when one symbol becomes more useful than another, we casually fold our umbrella in a little...
Ramsey and his colleagues began by putting very slow neutrons in a weak magnetic field, causing them to precess like tops. These spinning neutrons were directed through a strong electric field which would cause a dipole to change its precession frequency. However, the physicists recorded no change in the spinning of the neutron...
...launched into a 500-mile-high polar orbit. It will carry a virtually perfect gyroscope-one that is almost completely free from friction, gravitational pull or magnetic fields. If the general relativity theory is correct, according to calculations made by Stanford University Physicist Leonard Schiff, the gyroscope should precess-change the direction of its axis of rotation-about 1/500th of a degree each year that it is in orbit. This gradual and almost imperceptible change would be caused by the continuous passage of the gyroscope through Einsteinian space, which is "warped" by the earth's gravitational field...
Harvard's varsity crow passed its Generals handily Saturday on the Charles by defeating four top Eastern crews and setting a new course record of 8:48.4 in the precess. This leaves the Bolles-tutored outfit with an excellent chance of coming through the Divisionals at Syracuse next week unscarred, and going on to finish out the season with a perfect record...
...Saturday vaulted to fame when, subbing for Booth, he ran wild against the Princeton Tiger and sent him back thinking that Booth played anyway. He scored Yale's first touchdown practically singlehanded when he carried the ball 11 successive times until he finally scored, covering 68 yards in the precess...
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