Word: 000th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Dr. Michelson started his latest machinery. A ray of light shuttled through the tube for a course of 44 mi. It was a swift flash, less than 1-4,000th of a second in duration, was mechanically clocked with minute precision. Again Dr. Michelson made the light flit; and again. Repetitions, which must be averaged, will take weeks. Dr. Michelson waved goodbye to his assistants, motored to the comforts of his home in Pasadena...
Gorgeous pageants, tempestuous rejoicings in every city of the land, honored Italy's No. 1 Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro) on the 2,000th anniversary of his birth (TIME, May 5). Last week Italy faced the new year with a new No. 2 Virgil...
...15?Celebrations commemorating 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Virgil; at Mantua (birth place), Naples (burial place) and Rome (career place...
Iceland, which is technically not a colony but a sovereign state which happens to have the same King as Denmark, celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of its parliament month ago (TIME, July 7). Great Britain sent its largest battleship, foreign newspapers sent reporters, the world was made Iceland-conscious. Omitted from the festivities were the 21 bleary, rain-drenched Faroe Islands which straggle through the North Atlantic between Iceland and the Shetlands and have been Danish territory since 1386. Life is hard in the Faroes. Their industries are cod-fishing, sheep-raising, knitting golf sweaters, plucking puffin feathers. Their amusements...
Previously, although united with Denmark only in His Majesty's person, proud Iceland has keenly "felt" the fact that Danish statesmen were representing her at Geneva. Today jubilant Icelanders have for their 1,000th birthday present the final acknowledgment before all that in every respect they are a sovereign nation. Proud too are all Scandinavians that they alone have set the quarrelsome world an example by almost achieving disarmament. As part of the observances at Reykjavik last week their representatives signed a treaty binding them never to go to war and to accept the arbitrations of the Permanent Court...