Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the conical shadow of the moon, astronomers are willing to travel thousands of miles with cumbersome equipment, spend months of laborious preparation because the fleeting seconds of totality enable them to check whether the solar system is running according to calculations; to observe the effect of masking the sun on radio, weather and other terrestrial phenomena; to study the shape, brightness and composition of the sun's fiery corona. One of the first experimental confirmations of the Theory of Relativity came from an eclipse in 1919. Albert Einstein had predicted that, because the mass of a heavy body...
Robert M. Terrall of Lakewood, Ohio, who will receive the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship for a year of travel in Europe. Terrall was president of the Lampoon...
...four Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowship for travel and study in Europe next year have been awarded to: Douglas T. McClay of Mattapan; David Savan of Manchester, New Hampshire; Edward D. Sullivan of Dorchester; and to John A. Thierry of Cambridge...
...radiation, it would be able to see radio waves. The ethereal wiggles that gird the globe with speech and music are part of the same electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, ultraviolet and infra-red radiation, x-rays, gamma rays from radium. Hence under ideal conditions radio waves travel at the velocity of light - about 186,270 mi. per sec. - and for many a year radiomen assumed that wireless signals always traveled at that pace in their journeys around Earth. Last week Dr. Harlan True Stet son of Harvard informed the Institute of Radio Engineers that some waves had been...
Palm Springs (Walter Wanger) is an attempt to commercialize the publicity which fan magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...