Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct way to estimate the capacity of the shops is to examine their products. In Pierce Hall is a Cathode Ray Oscillograph machine which measures a movement taking place in forty-millionths of a second, the first high-voltage transmitter in the country, and massive soil testing engines whose four foot beams are knife-edged to the accuracy of a thousandth of an inch...
...schedule calls for one trip abroad by each team to play two foreign opponents. On their native soil every sextet will play every other twice. Breaking past precedent, there is no provision for playoffs...
Every Jooss ballet is the creation of the man who gave the troupe its name. Son of a farmer who kept a brewery on the side, Kurt Jooss was expected to go through a general schooling, return to the soil. He rebelled. At school he was moody, more interested in the piano and taking pictures. For a time he struggled with farming, but after one session with Rudolf von Laban he was suddenly determined to dance, studied for three years with the eccentric who inspired Mary Wigman and many another of the modernistic school...
...anti-Slavery Whig. In 1850 he wrecked what might have been a promising political career by breaking with Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of slavery to the Northern territories. In 1852 Mann was defeated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Same year he returned to education by accepting the presidency of New Antioch College...
...least of the Fairchild aerial wonders are aerial contour maps, now made in a big way for the Department of Agriculture in connection with soil conservation work. In a vertical aerial photograph the earth's surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss...