Word: slow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field to win in 4:38 at Exeter. Against Yale he will run the mile just to pick up points, leaving the blue-ribbon to Oldfather if he can get it. Nichols will run the two-mile for the first time this season, may slice seconds off the slow meet record...
...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 the timing mechanism and the measuring rods...
...were incorporated into Relativity theory, not as a consequence of absolute motion through a stagnant ether but as an effect of relative motion. If two observers are moving relative to each other, each one would find, checking by his own timepiece, that the other's clock was running slow...
...emitted light, just as the oscillation frequency of a radio transmitter determines the length of the radio waves. When his particles were speeded up to velocities around 1,000 miles per second, Dr. Ives observed a change in wavelength which indicated that the fast-moving atomic clocks were running slow, as the theory predicts they should...
...COURAGE - Joseph Vogel - Knopf ($2.50). Written with a straight left, with humor and talent also, this story of a powerful, slow-but-sure-witted jobless Pole is by the author of At Madame Bonnard's, who looks like the best bet among present proletarian novelists...