Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven years, burying his instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...
...Sea Tiger (Milton Sills). On a sea-swept island off the coast of Spain, lives Justin Ramos (Milton Sills) captain of a fishing vessel, hardfisted, passionate, intent upon the affections of Amy (Mary Astor). To win her, he batters many men into hasty submission, generally employing for this purpose a righthanded, crunching, demoralizing and incapacitating haymaker, after the manner of Milton Sills since the time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Finally, he chucks his ladylove under the chin, drags her to church and enters holy matrimony...
Potent Moonlight: Light vibrations given a definite direction are said to be polarized. Sunlight reflected by sea, snow, sky is partially polarized; moonlight is largely polarized. To find the influence of polarized light on living organisms, it was played on yeast, bacteria, sick rats. The growth of yeast, bacteria was stimulated. The sick rats soon died.?Dr. David I. Macht, Johns Hopkins University...
...this party, but the excitement attendant upon such an event has completely upset our mental processes and we can think of nothing better to do than reminisce and wait for that nine weeks distant moment when we too shall join that vast company which goes down to the sea and then into the ships...
After Harvard and Heidelberg he taught in Iowa, never marking attendance, always forgetting the drab scene and his lecture subjects to stray into ancient Greece. But one day his blackboard bore a note: "No class today. I've gone to war." He had met Rudyard Kipling at sea. Twenty years later he had renounced war, rebuked Kipling...