Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight Executive Editor Wood told Cartoonist Kirby that his contract, which expires April 1, would not be renewed. To the man who once said: "Scripps-Howard and Joseph Pulitzer seem to have the same ideas," Mr. Wood added: "That's your wish, isn't it?"
"The energy to be absorbed if we strike an object while running 25 miles an hour is just the same as if we fell from a height of 20.9 feet ... it is possible to survive this impact although it is just about the shock limit for the human body ... we...
> "Striking a solid object at 25 will do you and your car about the same damage as if you had driven off a two-story building. Encountering a stone wall at 50 will be just as serious as if you had dropped from an eight-story building."
Developing 500 horsepower, the Ranger is the lightest powerplant of its size in the world (1.28 pounds per h.p.), weighs some 200 pounds less than European engines of the same design and power, has no counterpart in U. S. design. Jubilant Ranger engineers declared its principles were adaptable to bigger...
> Some years ago Einstein visited California's Mt. Wilson Observatory, which houses under a vast rotatable dome the largest (100-inch) operating telescope in the world. Einstein was standing on a horizontal flange attached to the dome, when an astronomer flipped a switch and the dome began to turn...