Word: warp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this circle is as straight as a real line can be, and truly measures the shortest distance between two points in the universe as it actually exists?that is, in a universe full of conflicting masses of electricity and spinning bodies whose pulls and counter-pulls "warp" space "out of shape." But a mathematical system for measuring universal space cannot properly be called "geometry," which means "earth-measurement"?Dr. James Pierpont, Yale University...
There was another element in Mr. Coolidge's tariff pronouncements last week,-probably of more interest to the country. The President announced his refusal, in spite of a recommendation by the Tariff Commission, to raise the duty on cotton-warp knit-fabric gloves. Before the War these gloves were always made in Germany. When the War came and cut off the German supply, the industry sprang up in this country. More recently the German competition sprang into existence again and began to undersell the U. S. commodity. In 1922 in the Fordney-McCumber Act, the duty on these gloves...
...institution that will further mental development. Unfortunately it carries its educational inspiration only a limited way at present, and leaves many unaided who only need careful and thoughtful handling to bring them safely through. Psychiatrists say it is quite possible to readjust these fewer and more nervous temperaments, to warp the rules rather than the minds of those who do not conform to them. As yet no mental hygiene expert has been given the necessary, authority by a college office, and only the normal temperament is properly developed in the large American universities...
...crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...
With hope to warp her ends to their own needs...