Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Various winter sports at Harvard will continue their seasons by resuming practice today and tomorrow. Crew, baseball, lacrosse, rugby, fencing, and boxing will swing into action with meetings this week and in the early part of next week. Track, polo, and squash have been in progress over the week-ends during the examination period and are pointing for important contests this month...
...ionize the imprisoned nitrogen. If the telescope is pointed at a source of the rays the gas in one sphere should be ionized less than the gas in the other. If the cylinder is swung athwart the ray, ionization should be equal in both spheres. Dr. Swann plans to swing his "telescope" to and fro until he can judge whether atoms are dying in the stars (Jeans) or are aborning between the stars (Millikan...
...Sing for trying to tamper with a witness in a legislative investigation (TiME, Sept. 14). Ex-Convict Maier procured $500 from N. G. L. to give to a sheriff who was politically influential among the city's transplanted Teutons. Then Maier said he needed another $2,500 to swing the Lloyd's pier lease. The Bremen and the Europa were abuilding. The line, "desperate" for a big North River dock, was forced to play Tammany's game, so Herr Schuengel addressed a plea to George Washington Olvany, leader of Tammany Hall. Why? "I tried all means...
...leader close to Moscow, with ideas about making peace with Japan (TIME, Nov. 2). This choice, however, was not made definite last week and the new Government was strongly urged to "fight Japan" by one of China's doughtiest war lords, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang who offered to swing his private army into the fight and attempt to defend Chinchow (see below...
...Abraham Flexner in his challenging book on "University American, English and German" says that "colleges do not know what they wish: "Do they wish brains? Do they wish "industry? Do they wish scholarship? "Do they wish character, or do they "wish 'qualities that fit for leadership'? They swing blindly and helplessly from one to another." But if he reads the report of President Aydelotte covering ten years at Swarthmore College, he will find at least one American college that knows what it wishes to do. The answer is very like the one which President Lowell has made for the American...