Word: statically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permanent fine arts professors are entrusted with the final decision as to who shall teach under them. Thus they are able to choose their own successors, perpetuate their own ideas, prevent any change, and eliminate unwanted personalities. So long as they remain in control, the department will be static--as it was at its founding...
...Raymond Pearl believes that in the 17th Century, world population began to rise from a relatively static figure of about 450,000,000. Now it is approximately 2,100,000,000-an average density of some 40 persons to the square mile. Dr. Pearl has constructed a "logistic" curve following the population rise of the past three centuries. If this curve is not skewed by some worldwide catastrophe, if it continues to follow its geometric destiny, it will go on rising, but more slowly, and will flatten out some 160 years hence at a population figure...
...California and New Mexico on sorties lasting two and three weeks from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...
...many of his indulgent readers find on their walls. In truth he has become embittered because he has been unable to settle into a political philosophy which would snugly fit the changing world. it irks him that he cannot objectify what suits him personally, that he can find nothing static, nothing permanent, nothing resembling the unity and coherence of medieval times. Thus it was that he made out of President Roosevelt's masterfully worded and perfectly times Message on the State of the Union "a landmark in the history of Western thought...
...Carnegie apparatus stores static electricity on a big electrode inside an inverted pear-shaped steel tank, 55 ft. high- only the big end of which is visible from the exterior (see cut)-discharges its high voltage in direct current. It does not speed its projectiles to such high energies as are obtainable with the "cyclotron," but the Carnegie and Westinghouse researchers claim an advantage for precision measurements in the fact that their voltage is controlled and steady...