Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miracle was, of course, plain physics, which has been used dozens of times to find lost radium. When Professor Allen rubbed his electroscope with the cat's fur he charged it with static electricity. Because radium gives off rays with electrical characteristics, when the electroscope approached the radium among the cinders, the rays affected the electrically charged gold leaf. Naturally, they separated...
...mind such a policy smacks of weakness, sentimentality and therefore danger. "The kulak must be completely liquidated!," he wrote, using a popular but ambiguous Soviet verb also correctly used in the sentences, "Let the hangman now liquidate the condemned!" and "Let us, Comrade, endeavor to liquidate the static in our radio...
...certainly differentiated from the average man's conception. Mr. Hoover's conception, by the very nature of the subject, is not easy to put in words. One can approach his definition by stating its opposite. The common assumption is that peace is a status, or that it is a static thing. Among persons chiefly sentimental, this conception is universal. They think of peace as a condition, a Nirvana. They think "Let us have peace, and then we can go about our business in peace...
...conception underlying Mr. Hoover's approach (I quote the words from his speech of November 11), "peace is not a static thing." It is a dynamic thing, having sometimes greater momentum, sometimes less; sometimes it is more capable of matching the forces making for war, sometimes less. Peace is at once a resultant of forces and itself a force. Being a force, it permits no Nirvana-like rest to those who enjoy it or cherish it, or are responsible for it; it must be continuously fed, from time to time stimulated; must at all times be the object or fostering...
...problem of the English Department is to find men of a calibre equal to that of those men who have contributed to its distinction. Excellence in a faculty does not consist in a static retention of first class men, but in the ability to find men who can fill their places when the necessity arrives. The greatness of any department lies above all in the maintenance of an average of undoubted excellence...