Word: tation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that relativity has set up a definite connection between electricity and gravitation. So said Professor Edmund Taylor Whittaker of Edinburg University. He offered some propositions: that if the gravitation of a planet could vary rapidly, an electrified body in the field of attraction would emit radiation; that "gravi-tation simply represents a continued effort of the universe to straighten itself...
...lose but rather gained prestige after this prodigious but chery of his own troops, for he had himself fought in the thick of it. The reformed sinner, now a mighty hero, retired after his vic tory to a Buddhist temple for three months, a vacation period of medi tation which he has several times since repeated. The year 1922 found him in Moscow, acting as military liason officer for Dr. Sun, who had despaired by then of receiving aid from any other Great Power for his project of conquering China in the name of Nationalism, or "China for the Chinese...
...rest of the diplomatic corps, officially oblivious to M. Karakhan, reported acceptances of their various governments of China's invi- tation, (TIME, July 20) to a Customs Conference, awaited the ar- rival of delegates...
June 1, the Air Mail Service will start its night service between New York and Chicago. Night flying is absolutely essential to air transpor tation, which cannot otherwise compete with express trains. The route will have giant beacons of 600,000,000 candlepower at the terminals, smaller beacons every 25 miles and emergency landing lights every three miles. The French are following in our footsteps by inaugurating night flying and will have one beacon of even greater candlepower. This will be located at Mont St. Afrique near Dijon, 2,000 feet above sea level, operated at 8,000 volts with...
France thought and continues to think otherwise. She does not trust Germany. She holds that Germany will avoid all obligations she is not actually compelled to meet. Whether the French interpre- tation of the German attitude be right or wrong, French action based on that interpretation has had unfortunate results. In the first place, it has made a fair test of Germany's willingness and ability to pay impossible. In the second place, reparations problems have become inextricably confused with political and military problems and purposes...