Word: space
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spinning along through sidereal space as is their custom, an enormous, hot heavenly body and a tiny cold one arrived last week at relative positions such that the tiny one shut off part of the light shed by the enormous one upon a third, a moderate-sized body covered with white, blue and green scum, which spun along hard by the tiny cold body. That is, the moon cast its solar shadow full upon the earth- a total eclipse. It happened that the shadow-an oval patch 80 miles in longitude, about 180 in latitude, traveling side wise from west...
...Harvard has occupied considerable space in the public prints of late, what with the CRIMSON'S Confidential Guide to Courses, George Owen's majority-don't-like-the-game" article and the attack on football over-emphasis. It remained for the faculty at Cambridge, however, to hit upon the most novel and yet the most worthwhile plan for bettering college administration...
...country's leading newspaper, the New York Times, published its account of the Scopes appeal on page 6. In Lawyer Darrow's home town the Chicago Tribune published it on page 18. The New York Herald Tribune found space on page 13. None thought the matter worthy of editorial mention. Thus passes the glorious news of the world...
Millikan Ray. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory (Pasadena) reported his five years' research upon a new ray, shorter, quicker, more penetrating than even the Xray. It will pierce two feet of lead. It reaches the earth continuously from surrounding space. Whence it comes, what it does to the earth, how and whither its vast power can be directed, Dr. Millikan could...
...Geometry" On the assumption that Dr. Einstein's propositions are true, a new, non-Euclidian system of space and spatial measurement is built upon them. In this Einsteinian system, no line is absolutely straight; projected, the ends of any line will ultimately meet, forming a circle whose circumference is estimated at 18 quintillions of miles. An arc of this circle is as straight as a real line can be, and truly measures the shortest distance between two points in the universe as it actually exists?that is, in a universe full of conflicting masses of electricity and spinning bodies whose...