Word: static
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arched its back and spit for a fight. Its fur was bristling. .The manager slammed the chamber door and turned on the gas. The box exploded, injuring human attendants. Another explosion followed a similar experiment. Last week under the same circumstances there was a third explosion. Deduction: static electricity from the fighty cat's fur ignited the lethal gas. Authorities considered having the Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. perform further executions under contract...
...more than 50 people witnessed the Manger feats last week in the amateur weight-lifting championships of the U. S. The reason for that was the bouts were held in Manhattan's German-American Athletic Club, an out-of-the-way little place on an island full of less static entertainment than grunting men lifting lifeless burdens...
...story of the star-crossed love of Paolo for his brother's wife has, however, a certain static lustre in the Phillips version, and Miss Cowl is radiant in her picturization of what is, after all, a minor role. Philip Merivale is a simple and direct Paolo and Guy Standing gives to Giovanni all the sinister quality the verse will allow. Katherine Emmet's Lucrezie also is excellent. But it is not easy to imagine anyone becoming excited enough about it all to telephone his favorite ticket speculator...
...Paine Hall could afford to step down from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from...
...famous marathon runner, and other athletes and non-athletes, made by having them alternately run on a treadmill and lic still on a couch, show that the athlete's blood changes less than that of the ordinary man in motion. The acidosis of De Mar's blood remained static while running at an average rate of 5.8 miles per hour, when he consumed 3.5 liters of oxygen per minute and kept a pulse rate of 101. For comparison a non-athlete in the same test consumed 1.5 liters of oxygen a minute, keeping a pulse rate of 192, and lowering...