Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though we speak of the noontide sun as "beating down" on our heads, it does nothing of the kind. Both sun and moon, when overhead, actually "pull up" on us, their gravitational action counteracting that of our own planet, so that our heads and all other earthly objects are physically lighter at high noon and under the moon's zenith than at other times...
This is elementary, but what Science must argue out with Dr. Einstein is whether or. not gravity is an instantaneous thing, operating at infinite speed. He says not. One proposition of Relativity is that the pull of a body's gravity travels at the speed of light-about 180,300 mi. per sec. Specifically therefore, the moon's gravity pull is felt on earth one and a third seconds after the moon has passed its zenith; the sun's gravity, 8 seconds after high noon...
...Labor government, expressed complete optimism for England's future in his speech yesterday. Unlike Professor W. C. Abbott, professor of history in the University, who recently expressed to the CRIMSON an opinion that "the power of the communists in England is alarming," Mr. Henderson thinks that "Britain will pull through...
...Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle of those who from East and West, from North and South respond to the pull of the printed page...
...Diegel swung his driver, sent the ball 300 yards; the grey goose shafts of Dr. Crouse winged from a bow that took a pull of 80 pounds to spring; the casts of 18-year-old Harkins flew 400 feet (he was far behind the rest, though for his tools he did better than any). Gehrig "mitt" smiled. and He took a "pegged" it. "pill" in his Farther than the bait, straighter than the drive, as swift as the arrow, flew his ball. On the ninth hole, by a single shot, he beat Diegel, received first prize - a golden wrist watch...