Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before a select gathering of 75 scientists at the Harvard Observatory Friday afternoon. Dr. Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, advanced a startlingly new explanation of the origin of cosmic static...
...landscape portion is handled with real decorative adroitness, but it may be objected that the forms . . . remain static, posed, studio figures. The effect of the whole, if brilliantly contrived, is pedantic and artificial...
...Nations be "divorced" from the Treaty of Versailles of which it is an integral part were seconded by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He appeared to feel that only by rewriting the Treaty to suit Germany could that country be induced to rejoin the League. "Human life is not static," argued Captain Eden, "but is rather a changing thing." The Assembly last week did nothing about this Eden proposal...
...meteorological and commercial reasons, when summer ends, the radio season begins. Some broadcast sponsors think programs may be spoiled by summer static; others believe listeners are cool when the weather is warm. By last week, however, practically every solvent producer of consumer goods in the U. S., cheered by signs of recovery (see col. i), had laid his plans to tap the national pocketbook by tickling the national ear with the mightiest and most expensive free show since radio began...
...expressions of moods, descriptions of street and industrial scenes, echoes of stray opinions overheard in crowds. As a poet he has been like a radio tuned in on several stations at once, getting bits of preaching, bits of political talk, bits of good music, bits of the chattering, discordant static of U. S. urban life. These several voices he has never before fused into a program that made sense or symmetry. With The People, Yes, he comes close to doing so, and the book narrowly misses a place with the best of U. S. poetry. Written with a deceptive informality...