Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barring the possibility that the Hindenburg's commander, Captain Max Pruss, might reveal conflicting facts when he is recovered enough to testify, Dr. Eckener's explanation seemed likely to be accepted as final. He concluded that the disaster was caused: by lightning or static electricity from a small, following thunderstorm, igniting free gas high inside the rear of the envelope. Speaking in German translated by Vice President Frederick W. Meister of American Zeppelin Transport Co., and discarding sabotage in short order, Dr. Eckener reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities...
There would be no problem, were the situation once fully comprehended, for if the teaching of specified sections of the first three mathematics courses were more static, a section structure including one section especially designed for direct application of the principles taught could be evolved. This sort of solution would necessitate a modification in the structure of the mathematics department which would not be wholly desirable...
Helium for Hydrogen-Inquiries by all authorities soon passed over sabotage (incendiary bullets) as the cause of the disaster. Next discussed was static electricity, harges of which all aircraft accumulate, especially when flying in thunderstorm areas. The fact that the Hindenburg's, ground lines had been down for three minutes before the blaze began, thus presumably drawing off all static charges, opposed this theory...
Professor Otto Stern of Carnegie Institute of Technology observed that hydrogen Drotons escaping through a small aperture become ionized, or build up a small positive electric charge, through the friction of their escape. Hydrogen burns on contact with oxygen. The presence of a slight negative charge of static electricity in the airship fabric or in the air might thus cause a spark sufficient to start the fire. Zeppelin men scouted this idea, however, pointing out that many a German airship came back from bombing London shot full of holes which caused no hydrogen fire...
...unlike Oliver, Mr. Santayana's morality is not static. Like Mario he can act. He can compare, criticise and share the virtues of ways of life different from his own--which Oliver could never...