Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ermine and broadcloth of a British University's lord-rectorship are one thing. The dignitary who is elected adds considerably to his reputation at the trifling cost of an address on youth's enviable estate, whole duty and glorious opportunities for service. Sometimes the occasion brings forth a notable pronouncement, as that of Sir James Barrie on Courage, delivered when he assumed the lord-rectorship of St. Andrews University...
...election of a lord rector by the students is quite another thing. The qualifications of the candidates are too well known to necessitate campaign oratory and tubthumping. Solemnity is banished and the vote is one of hearty sentiment, not unmixed with good British horseplay and ribaldry...
...some time the women voters remained ladies, tripping prim and proper to and from the balloting. But the spirit of the thing came upon them and a score reverted to the fishwife, yanking hair, screeching epithets, tearing skirts and blouses in a wrangle on the turf. Spectators guffawed, applauded...
This is elementary, but what Science must argue out with Dr. Einstein is whether or. not gravity is an instantaneous thing, operating at infinite speed. He says not. One proposition of Relativity is that the pull of a body's gravity travels at the speed of light-about 180,300 mi. per sec. Specifically therefore, the moon's gravity pull is felt on earth one and a third seconds after the moon has passed its zenith; the sun's gravity, 8 seconds after high noon...
Shortly afterwards, as a result of this flood, the authorities declared the Engine Society disbanded, and Harvard's first and last fire department was a thing of the past...