Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This seismograph is rugged enough to withstand severe quakes close to the observatory-an important consideration in California. An accurate time record of the earthquake waves is also important, however, and pendulum clocks of high accuracy are likely to be thrown out of kilter by strong temblors originating nearby. Dr. Benioff has now devised what he calls an "earthquake resistant time- piece"- a clock driven by a 1,000-cycle tuning fork, which is in turn driven by a fourstage amplifier. This apparatus is accurate to one-tenth of a second per day and Dr. Benioff was sure last week...
...soul-searching go at that, the News then plunged ahead with all the rest of Manhattan's press to follow the Gedeon story on through. Suspicion fell upon the estranged father Joseph Gedeon (pronounced Gedyon), an upholsterer with erotic tendencies. Reporters hounded him into beer halls, had chairs thrown at them...
...would Senators view with genuine alarm an increase in the receipt of the good things of this earth from abroad and cry for a return to the days when we habitually shipped out much more than we received? Intelligent readers desiring light on the facts as impartially and expertly thrown as we can humanly expect, would do well to explore the contents of Foreign Policy Reports (nongovernmental, non-business), published twice a month by Foreign Policy Association. Inc., No. 8 West 40th Street, New York City. Am re-reading that of May 15, 1936, on the U. S. Balance...
Summarized, the French lowdown on Addis Ababa last week was that a slanting tin roof made a great deal of difference. Had not Viceroy Graziani & Staff been standing under its eaves, the five bombs, all inexpertly "thrown high" by Ethiopians, would not have glanced and rolled off to a short distance. They gave the Viceroy 38 body wounds but they killed numbers of Ethiopians and would infallibly have killed Graziani & Staff had the tin roof not been there. The Chief of Italy's East African Air Force General Aurelio Liotta not only had to have a leg amputated...
...foot farther in Hongkong than in Finland. The same broad jump will be ⅜ in. longer in Texas than in Massachusetts. "Hammer throwers with Olympic aspirations," writes Dr. Kirkpatrick, "may take satisfaction in the award of the 1940 games to Tokyo rather than to Helsingfors, for a well-thrown hammer will go some 4½ in. farther in Japan than in Finland." Differences of altitude bring about a further complication, for the force of gravity decreases with increasing height from sea level...