Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flash seems instantaneous, without beginning or end. But it must begin at one point, go to another, because the resistance of the air to the electric stress must break at one point. Dr. Simpson has shown that it always goes from a positively charged body to one negatively charged. The Earth's surface is negatively charged, the atmosphere positively. Whenever a lacy branching showed in photographs of the flash, Dr. Simpson has taken the direction the branches pointed as indicating the negative pole. But his theory has been that the top of the cloud is negative, the bottom positive...
...inserted on the ground that the determination of local "need" would lead to bureaucratic delays and political complications. But President Hoover's chief criticism was leveled against provisions in both bills for a bond issue for public works. At the beginning of the Depression the President used to stress public building as a major form of relief. When it failed to work, he turned against it. Said he last week...
First setback was when Long Island Capital Corp. petitioned for authority to buy control of Long Island Lighting Co. Said Commission Chairman Milo Roy Maltbie in refusing to grant permission: "Experience has shown that in times of stress when assistance is most needed, holding companies are unable to give it, and in good times when funds can be secured at low rates, the operating companies do not need external assistance. The record in this case does not show that the addition of Long Island Capital Corporation to the corporate structure of the Long Island Lighting System of companies would...
...considerable part of the laboratory will be devoted to the study of the effect of stress on variously shaped solid bodies with the aid of polarized light and sensitive cameras. The distribution of stress and strain exerted on a notched object, for example, can be detected by bands of colored light which are recorded on the photographic plate in the camera. The English scientist, Coker, developed the process early in the last decade, but its practical engineering value is just beginning to be realized...
...desirable adjunct to the State. He planned for Washington "a church for national purposes." Not in his lifetime, nor in the succeeding century, was anything done about founding one. There existed in Washington no official church for state weddings or funerals or solemn thanksgiving or prayer in time of stress. The religion of the U. S. President was, and is, of no concern to the State: he could worship, get married, be buried with his own kind. But for the nation itself there ought to be a church, thought George Washington and many men after him, where heroes should...