Word: morley
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...most careful and accurate of these experiments was carried out by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at the Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1887. They compared the speed of light in two beams at right angles to each other. As the earth rotates on its axis and orbits the sun, they reasoned, it will move through the ether, and the speed of light in these two beams should diverge. But Michelson and Morley found no daily or yearly differences between the two beams of light. It was as if light always traveled at the same speed relative...
Canada, host this year to more than 3,000 American students, is the most popular destination for those seeking undergraduate degrees abroad, in no small part because it's close to home. Katy Morley, 18, chose Bishop's University in southern Quebec because she wanted to leave Vermont yet remain within a two-hour drive of her family's farm. "I loved Bishop's from the first minute," she says. She appreciates her small classes, the charming Quebec scenery and the "low-key" people, whose "whole mind set is different" from that of Americans...
...lived over here in Cambridge until threeyears ago, when they raised my rent to $1,100 amonth, so I had to get out," said Frank Morley, ajanitor who works at Harvard through an outsidecontractor...
...they expect us to work, pay us a livingwage," Morley added. "They can afford to do that...
...DeVries said. "Yale's always a huge game and a huge opportunity." UMass, 8-4 at Ohiri Field UMass 2 1 2 3 -- 8 Harvard 1 0 1 2 -- 4 G: UMass--Negus (2), Janowicz (2), Runkel, Little, Gabrielli, Guski; Harvard--Buttles (2), Sprong, Baly. A: UMass--Morley (2), McCaffrey (2), Runkel, Little, Madigan; Harvard--Sprong, DeVries, Callan. S: UMass--9; Harvard...