Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South African Negro girl who left her employment suddenly and departed to her kraal (hut). Her employer, a farmer, drove to the kraal, took the girl back to his farm and there flogged her. But this was not enough. He tied her up by the neck to a beam in a rat-infested barn. An hour later, the girl was found dead: the tips of her fingers had been gnawed off by the rats...
...prairie just west of Chicago (TIME, Aug. 11). There a rectangle of 12-inch pipe, almost a mile in perimeter, was laid down. Its greater dimension extends from east to west. This pipe was sealed and the air exhausted. Mirrors were placed in the corners so that a beam of light would be reflected completely around it. In one corner an arc light was placed, the beams of which, split by mirrors, were reflected around the rectangle in opposite directions...
...beams, traveling around the rectangle in both directions, moved at the same rate, the waves would come into the interferometer simultaneously; there would be no interference, hence no dark lines and light fringes on the receiving surface. If the beam going in one direction traveled faster than the beam going in the opposite direction, their waves would arrive at different times; there would be interference, hence black lines and light fringes visible in the instrument. With this second result, it would be apparent that something impeded the light going in one direction-the movement of the earth (as the Einstein...
Earthworms, although proverbially blind, are sensitive to light all over their bodies, according to experiments made with a small beam of intense light.-Dr. Walter N. Hess, Johns Hopkins University...
Their boat was built especially for the cruise, with a beam of 16 feet, a 12-horse power auxiliary engine and a shallow draft which will enable the adventurers to cruise among the coral islands and reefs of the Spanish Main as their Nancy directs...