Word: statics
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...basic element the utilization of railway and tractor ordnance of heavy calibre, linking the strategic points on he coast with existing railway systems. By means of the railroads and military roads capable of supporting heavy motor tractors, the whole system of defense will be changed from a static to a mobile one. For the officering of this new organization, the government is planning to commission at least 1500 college students yearly in the reserve...
...easily flew on one motor, After final testings and adjustments it was supposed to be sent to Palm Beach where members of the Yale Unit were to try it out. Unfortunately the hull was broken in the shop before delivery. Now a new hull, longer and of greater static flotation is being constructed. Tests of this will be made this week at Newport News by D. H. McCulloch, who taught the Yale Unit...
...simple and static, in keeping with the theory that the poem was originally written in imitation of Euripides. To the large chorus have been assigned two lyrical passages which serve to break up the regular rounds of speeches by the three friends and Job's responses. At the beginning of the play occurs a colloquy between the Lord and The Adversary similar to that between Athene and Poseidon in "The Trojan Women" or to that of Apollo and Death in the "Alkestis," and with this is presented Job's calamity as a forceful prologue to the suffering caused later...
...subject of yesterday's lecture was "The Problem of Evil." Mr. Tagore said in part: life is essentially in motion and evil helps to draw it forward. But too often we exaggerate its importance by regarding it as static. The true movement of life is towards the enlargement of itself; selfishness may be regarded as the basic cause of evil, and society having thus gotten out of gear, we are obliged to use coercion to maintain order. Evil proves the dignity of life in that it is the right of man to suffer, but it is the duty...