Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expanding but appears to do so because the atomic measuring rods by which it is observed are shrinking-an illusion like that of Alice in Wonderland who, after nibbling a magic mushroom, found that the animals and everything around her were getting bigger because she was getting smaller...
...letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment of cogitation, tell him what day of the week it had been...
...Social Security Act. The groups of long-service employees to whom this does not apply would not, if in similar non-exempt employment, become eligible for pensions under the Social Security Act for several years. The point has accordingly not been reached where University employees actually retiring receive smaller pensions than they would receive under the Social Security Act, and with the present possibility, of changes in the Act it does not appear desirable to attempt to anticipate the action to be taken if and when that point is reached...
Crimson basketball title hopes, already faint after Tuesday's beating at the hands of Columbia, grew even smaller with the news that forward Charley Lutz will not accompany the team today when it entrains for Princeton...
Every month as planes get larger (see p.47), airports seem to get comparatively smaller, more dangerous. To the shame of U. S. commercial aviation, which leads the world in volume, the airport at the U. S. capital is one of the world's most dangerous. While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp...