Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stop and ask yourself how much you really know about the weather. Do you know what would justify an official forecast of rain? do you know why the wind blows? have you any idea what a cyclone is or what causes a tornado? It is this type of thing which is hidden behind the more or less baffling heading of "Meteorology" and which in reality is more closely connected with our everyday life than any other science...
...Pushing Sirs: In answer to Lawyer Curtis J. Quinby's criticism of "Swan Upping" as being a silly thing done by otherwise intelligent and progressive people: Granted that it is a foolish, though traditional, ceremony . . . what price a Britisher pushing a peanut up Ben Nevis with his nose as has been recently achieved up Pike's Peak. . . . No, Sir . . . not on your life. I seem to have heard also of publicity loving individuals who like to dance a marathon from Worcester to Boston, Mass, and also . . . what about those others who, perhaps on the spur of the moment...
...Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor, a Williams alumnus (1923), is Kenneth P. Britton...
...chapter by Albert Einstein occurs the following sentence: "The measurement of time is effected by means of clocks." Definition: "A clock is a thing which automatically passes in succession through a (practically) equal series of events (period)." Dr. Einstein advises readers to scan Sir James Jeans' article on Relativity before reading his own seven columns on Space-Time...
Preparation and training, past and done with. Now for the main thing; the big thing. Trying one's wings for the first time...