Word: spheroidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general college tennis and squash lettermen readily adapt themselves to the celloloid spheroid and paddle. An exception to the rule is found in the case of James J. Fuld '37, captain-elect of this year's tennis team. Jim was handicapped at plus 13 at the outset, but, although he has not yet acquired a weekly title, is said, by competent observers, to be rapidly improving...
...observing radio signals one day, noticed that they came with an unaccountable time lag. He could explain the lag by supposing that the radio waves were reflected from a layer of ions 1,300 mi. high. If his supposition was valid, the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer was not a pulsating spheroid, but a spheroid with one axis pushed out to make a shape much like that of a standard X-ray tube, with Earth & its inhabitants at the centre. The distances from the Earth's magnetic poles to the ends of the '"tube" would be about...
...Horsemen" contribute toward the creation of a genuine athletic atmosphere. It was inevitable that there should be occasional slips into the sentimental, but these were few, and the impression received was an almost literal one of a phase of college life which has for an emblem the brown oblate spheroid...