Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weight is a magnet hung so that its poles are a tiny fraction of an inch from the armature. When an earth tremor twitches the armature, the distance between it and the magnet changes slightly, altering the magnetic field and creating a tiny electric current which is amplified by vacuum tubes. This current fluctuates the light beam which makes the record, also twitches a galvanometer needle. In the Benioff seismograph, earth movements are magnified 200,000 times...
...under the Japanese Constitution the exalted positions of the Cabinet Ministers, especially those of the War Minister and Navy Minister, give them direct access to the Emperor, making them virtual equals of the Premier. Smart Sato simply let it be known that he will not operate in an exalted vacuum. When he sits down to elaborate Japanese foreign policy, he will take counsel with War Minister General Gen Sugiyama and Navy Minister Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai as often as possible. Minister Sato's promise lent weight to his opening speech before the House of Peers in which he keynoted...
...down before the roof was on. Last week the same meteorological hard luck seemed to be pursuing Caroline Gordon (Mrs. Allen Tate). For her Civil War novel came out in the wake of that typhoon of bestsellers, Gone With the Wind. Whether None Shall Look Back could weather the vacuum left by a super-seller covering the same ground, or whether the vacuum would lend it momentum, not even a publisher could predict. Sympathetic critics, just emerging from their cyclone cellars, wished Author Gordon luck but had to admit that None Shall Look Back, though it blew a neater, straighter...
...informal greetings to all guests and delegates to the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference on "The Role of Government in the National Economy." It has so far neglected to comment on those who are responsible for the Conference's progress from a vision to an actuality, from a speechless vacuum to a forum of discussion...
...decision by the Orphans' Court permitting the investment in corporate stocks of unrestricted trust monies created a sensation among sensation-proof Philadelphia lawyers. Wrote New-Dealing Judge William Curtis Bok, grandson of the late great publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis: "Fiduciaries cannot be put in vacuum and set apart from other investors. They too mutt scan the turbulent horizon of our financial and industrial life and do the best they...