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...waltzes her around and around regardless of the music and other people. How could he have forgotten her? After a while the pair swing out into the cool air, and he feels so refreshed and gay that he cannot help doing hand-springs on the lawn. They drift out into the darkness and look down the valley lighted only in a small village far off. Soon the music stops, and the noise of voices dies away on the night air. And the stillness of the country surges back over the hills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

...must contract slightly in the direction of motion, that a moving clock would therefore slow down. Though imperceptible except at speeds approaching light's velocity (186,000 mi. per sec.), these changes would affect a Michelson-Morley apparatus just enough to cancel any possible observation of the ether-drift-by altering the timing mechanism and the measuring rods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Clocks | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Deep Water Sailor. "I believe we have been right in the course we have charted. I propose to sail ahead. I feel sure that your hopes, I feel sure your help are with me. For, to reach a port, we must sail-sail, not lie at anchor; sail, not drift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chat | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Vagabond started. He knew he hadn't seen her come in the door. Breezed in? He glanced at the open window with suspicion. A faded drape undulated langurously. Could she--no, girls don't drift through windows, he reminded himself. Not at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

...three half-courses, investigation divulged, future solons may drift through the entire semester without being called upon for any proof that they have been keeping up with the course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: April Hours May Be Eluded by '38 Students in Gov't. | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

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