Word: stray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michelson never doubted that light's speed was constant in vacua, the air even between lofty mountain peaks is no vacuum. In a valley near Pasadena he had built a mile-long tube of corrugated iron (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930). Powerful pumps sucked out all but a few stray molecules of air. The U. S. Coast &; Geodetic Survey measured the tube to within .063 of an inch. Then Dr. Michelson measured it. At one end of the tube was a 32-sided mirror which could be spun as fast as a bacteriologist's centrifuge. Light from this...
...sharpshooting officers, died writhing, groaning and gushing blood upon the grass. Fascinated by this sight was a U. S. meat-packing executive, Robert G. Lotspiech, Swift & Co.'s assistant sales manager in Havana. As he watched from the eleventh floor terrace of the nearby Lopez Serrano Apartments, a stray bullet drilled him through the heart...
Five minutes later a misdirected artillery shell plumped into the Ford plant hard by the hotel. Stray bullets peppered buildings in which some 90 U. S. citizens live and work. From Washington, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull queried Ambassador Welles by telephone, then announced that U. S. Citizen Lotspiech was standing in a "needlessly exposed place" when killed, urged all U. S. citizens in Cuba not to expose themselves needlessly...
...Nicaraguans were killed by the explosion, four were injured by stray bullets Political enemies of the President started rumors that "most of the Government's ammunition has been destroyed- an obvious incitement to revolution. Announcing that it was "not ... a mere accident," President Sacasa grimly ordered in from outlying districts 500 Nicaraguan troops who brought with them plenty of ammunition...
...nude humanity sporting on the planks, drinking in the beauties of nature and life-restoring violet-rays. Perhaps, if we are patient, this custom, instead of remaining a bathing and boating performance, will become a real cult, boasting a single purpose and a single underlying philosophy. A few stray scholarships for Neufahrwasser Students might even catalyze the process...