Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conductor Walter on the podium, he had working with him no single artist so gifted as Toscanini's Soprano Lotte Lehmann. In the much-rehearsed Meister singer, Lehmann was a vital Eva. In Fidelio she was a dramatic, moving Leonore, even in that opera's static, old-fashioned stretches. Salzburg autograph collectors agreed with critics, pursued Soprano Lehmann in her Dirndl in the streets as often as they did Conductors Walter and Toscanini...
...ever impressed with the seriousness of the situation which confronts us. When I see that within a day or two damage can be done which no time ever can replace, I begin to realize we must look for a new type of security, a security which is dynamic, not static-a security which rests in intelligence not in forts. And in the fact that intelligence must be combined with aviation I find some cause for hope. It requires more intellect to operate an airplane than to dig a trench or shoot a rifle...
Metallic Energy. To establish the strength of a metal engineers squeeze or pull (static tests) or hit (impact test) a sample piece until it breaks. Though one test is as good as another, none really explains why an automobile bolt occasionally cracks, an airplane strut snaps, a battleship's armor plate yields. By building a machine which hits a piece of metal with the whack of a bullet traveling 1,000 ft. per sec., H. C. Mann of Watertown (Mass.) Arsenal discovered that when a piece of metal is struck a very strong blow, its molecules release some...
...highways in the early 1920's remembers the occasional ones which careened past on the road. Lopsided, homemade wooden boxes looking like outhouses on wheels, they usually provoked snarls or sneers from motorists forced to cut out around them. As the automotive industry progressed, trailers remained virtually static. As late as 1932 they were rarities. Then, suddenly, public resistance broke down. All over the U. S. improved trailers rolled onto the highways. Last week as June and the national vacation season simultaneously got under way, trailer manufacture had become by all odds the fastest-growing U. S. industry, with...
...dynamic maxim attributed to Stephen Girard reads: "My deeds must be my life; when I am dead my actions must speak for me." We hope Christian manhood leaving Girard College is eloquent action; a mere educational plant done up in Chester County marble is rather static-entirely speechless...