Word: unites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told how he had directed the light from a single vibrating atom at a thinly silvered mirror. In theory a single file of quanta battered at the mirror. Part of these reflected away, part passed through, just as would ordinary light. Possibly, thought Dr. Dempter, the quantum, smallest theoretical unit, was split into less comprehensible smithereens...
...battle of wheat' cannot be won in only one year. But the possibility of winning it exists. Nobody now doubts that it is possible to increase the average yield per acre. Wheat must be raised wherever possible by intensive methods. Zones giving a high yield per unit of area must be generalized. Some people think it is possible to arrive at 100 quintals [five tons] per hectare [nearly two and a half acres] and I also believe that Italian agriculture can still advance far on the road to perfection...
...were set to scrubbing sidewalks, in accordance with tradition. ¶ At the University of Wisconsin, famed for its journalistic educator President Glenn Frank, for its great economist Prof. Robert Commons (who dares chew tobacco in the President's office), Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn* started his Experimental College. At this unit of the University, students will study exclusively a single civilization, the Ancient Greek. In so doing, they are not called upon to master the Greek language. ¶At Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss., 40 Freshmen voluntarily shaved their own heads in a "Free Will Hair Offering", since upperclassmen are restrained...
...night watches on the bridge, five-hour stretches in the engine-room with the temperature at 116 degrees Fahrenheit, systematic investigation and study of the innards of a light cruiser and the workings of those innards, were part of the program outlined for the members of the Naval Science Unit from the University who took a brief cruise down the Atlantic seaboard early last summer...
...Naval Science Department who plan to qualify as Ensigns in the Navy are required to take one of these summer cruises. Fifteen members of the class of 1930 left Boston on June 25 on board the cruiser Florida, especially assigned by the Navy Department to carry the Naval Science units of Harvard, Yale, and Georgia Tech. Proceeding down Long Island Sound, the cruiser touched at Newport and New Haven, where the Yale unit, already veterans of a week's service, disembarked. The cruiser carried the Harvard sailors to Annapolis, where the contingent spent July 4, and sailed for home, arriving...