Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three 3½-year-old female elephants enter the ring, sit around a table, get three steins filled with colored water which resembles beer.* They sip their drinks, act increasingly tipsy, stagger around the ring, finally gulp down the water. While a trainer sings Show Me the Way To go Home, one by one the elephants sink to the ground, pretend to pass...
...taught the elephants to run through these capers without a hitch. Then members of Missouri prohibition clubs and the Anti-Saloon League protested, called the act "not very edifying." Few days later the zoo's board of control watched the elephants perform, called the protest "ridiculous." The show went on, drew enthusiastic applause from its first audiences this week...
Last fall T.C.'s garrulous, conservative Dean William Fletcher Russell, who believes that not more than 2% of his faculty leans to the left, decided to show businessmen their mistake. Professor Paul R. Mort, director of the college's Advanced School of Education, invited business executives to a conference with the professors. Three critics of business-Professors George Sylvester Counts, F. Ernest Johnson and Edward Hartman Reisner-thereupon started the fur flying. Four businessmen hit back-Mark M. Jones, president of Akron Belting Co.; George Harrison Houston, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president...
...famed Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, in which perpendicular beams of light were raced against each other, seemed to show that a light-carrying ether pervading all space did not exist. Fitzgerald, Larmor and Lorentz shored up the collapsing ether-concept by showing-theoretically-that a moving body must contract slightly in the direction of motion, that a moving clock would therefore slow down. Though imperceptible except at speeds approaching light's velocity (186,000 mi. per sec.), these changes would affect a Michelson-Morley apparatus just enough to cancel any possible observation of the ether-drift-by altering...
Observations with high-speed camera and photoelectric cell show that an expert golfer may swing his club head as fast as 125 m.p.h. At such velocities air resistance becomes a considerable factor. At the American Physical Society's convention in Washington last week, Physicist Sylvan Jay Crooker of Purcellville, Va. reported that air resistance may be diminished fifteenfold by scientific streamlining of the club head, the shape (except for the face of the club) conforming to airship hull contours tested in wind tunnels. Declared Dr. Crooker: "Dynamic and ballistic analyses, checked by field tests, prove the low-resistance [streamlined...