Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly, behind blue hydrangeas, the band of the Irish Guards struck up "God Save the Queen." The folding doors opened, disclosed the broad gold-laced backs of the court chamberlain and court steward, bowing low before Majesty. Chamberlain and steward backed into the room. Entered the Queen of England, ablaze...
Long-jawed Alfonso XIII of Spain listened last week in Seville, amid an imposing group of gold-braided notables, to a high-sounding address by Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The dictator gesticulated, emphasized, smiled, scowled, pointed. To foreign ears it would have sounded like...
One outstanding difference between the Seville fair and other European expositions was instantly apparent to opening-day visitors. Instead of finding uncomfortable new buildings in an old and settled town, they discovered a great established park with comparatively old exposition buildings in a hastily modernized city. Seville's exposition...
In his 53 years of experiment Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, now the world famed physicist of Chicago University, has little by little whittled away the inaccuracies surrounding the calculated speed of light. In 1926, he set up two reflecting mirrors of his own design on Mount Wilson and San Antonio...
Last week he announced another experiment-to try to time the speed of light still more accurately. He will build a pipeline one mile long and three feet in diameter. From it he will exhaust the air, leaving a vacuum. In a vacuum it will not be necessary to make...