Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision rendered today; it would be mechanically impossible for the morrow's voting to be constitutionally discontinued. This is the extent to which the Student Council is confident of a confirmation for its stand." At this writing, Monday afternoon, I do not know how the referendum is going to turn, out. I do know that if the Nays have it, the Council tonight will constitutionally amend the by-laws so as to abolish the elections. By-laws may be amended, added, or deleted by a two-thirds majority vote of the Council. There is no mechanical or constitutional obstacle...
...Each D. U. causes the car to require a longer turning radius ... for dry concrete pavement 80 feet longer for each D. U. carried. Thus you can make only one-fourth as sharp a turn at 50 as at 25; one-ninth as sharp...
...Some years ago Einstein visited California's Mt. Wilson Observatory, which houses under a vast rotatable dome the largest (100-inch) operating telescope in the world. Einstein was standing on a horizontal flange attached to the dome, when an astronomer flipped a switch and the dome began to turn, Einstein with it. The physicist did not realize that he was moving. Like most visitors subjected to the same experience, it seemed to him that he was stationary, that the whole central well of the observatory (solidly anchored through concrete pillars to bedrock) was turning in the opposite direction...
...years' sleuthing by a Duke University professor, is a 522-page argument that Melville's books are far from autobiographical, that Melville's South Seas period (1841-1845)-source of his most lasting books-was far more joyous than he later made out. Melville's turn to allegory, he says, was a literary mistake, aided and abetted by Boston and Manhattan intellectuals. Hawthorne, who used to lie in the hay talking with Melville about time and destiny, characterized Melville's metaphysics as enough to "compel a man to swim for his life...
Misfortune overtook Jim Curwen in the 100 free-style. Coming into his turn at the halfway mark, he spun without touching the wall and had to return to make contact, losing two body lengths in the process. He turned on the heat for his final fifty but his qualifying time of 55.4 was too slow to place him in the finals. Yale Captain Johnny Good took the final in the fine time of 52.7, eclipsing the meet record of 53 flat set by Charlie Hutter last year, and thus ending his career in Payne Whitney Pool with his best time...