Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "stinks'' by schoolboys and signified invention to most grownups, physics, chemistry and astronomy were distinct branches. Today physics not only encompasses the whole of the other two sciences but has confiscated and developed for its own purposes a third-pure mathematics. Modern physics is the spearhead of man's effort to discover and describe the essential nature of the universe...
...spearhead is triangular. The two faces which meet at the attacking point are experimental physics and mathematical physics. Men on the experimental front are generally grouped under captains. A British veteran of 30 years and the accredited proponent of matter's electrical structure is the captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France...
...battle now raging between the Cambridge School Teachers, and (as far as we can make out) everybody also in Cambridge, including the Mayer, City Council, people, parents and pupils, the real spearhead of the teachers' battalion is an organization quaintly described is an organization quaintly described as the "C.T.B.E.S.R." Even in an age of abbreviations this easily establishes a record. Translated, it means "The Cambridge Teachers Bureau of Educational and Statistical Research...
...reviving Freshman Rules and similar kid stuff, which had formerly been tossed aside with raccoon coats in the days when "College Humor" was starting to slip. Revival was all right, but a lot of Seniors who knew the score, distrusted Palaeopitus's typical means of reviving. Hence "Steeplejack", a spearhead of no deceptive, mature revival of interest. The campus is sick of some of the labels applied in order to clarify our ideas but the need for the ideas seems it stick...
...past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate, liners will float into a huge masonry bed. A sliding caisson will drop...