Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need of "first class brains"; but the Earl was never worse cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned as Secretary of State for India some...
...installed. Director Harlan True Stetson, onetime Harvard astronomer, watched the installation, summed up in his mind two problems he wants to solve with it: the causes of solar storms, which have a great effect upon terrestrial weather and radio reception; the cosmic clouds which he thinks may surround the earth and sun, may influence the intensity of solar radiation. Perkins Observatory was founded at Ohio Wesleyan University by one of its teachers of mathematics and astronomy, Hiram Mills Perkins. For 50 years, lie saved and invested his $1,800 salary. Before he died he turned back to the university...
...moving observer,* astronomers looked through their telescopes at the far away stars and found that he was correct. They discovered that light from some stars appeared redder than normal, others appeared bluer, concluded that the red stars (the longer wave lengths) were moving away from the earth, the blue stars (shorter wave lengths) were moving toward the earth.? Last week. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble, Mount Wilson Observatory astronomer, told visiting members of the National Academy of Sciences that he had rechecked this phenomenon of the spectral shift through the Mount Wilson telescope which can see farther into space than...
...shift has figured largely in modern ideas of cosmic structure. Albert Einstein predicted as a consequence of his relativity theory that light from large bodies would show a shift toward the long end of the spectrum, that this shift did not mean a real movement away from earth. Willem De Sitter, on the contrary, claimed it as evidence that matter is constantly tending to scatter, expand the limits of the universe...
...with Achieve ment, says Pitkin. "A man by the name of William Randolph Hearst built up the largest and most profitable newspaper and magazine business in America. By Ideal ism? By Service? A citizen known as Doheny has built up one of the vastest oil businesses on earth. Has anybody ever found a chemical trace of Idealism and Service in him?" The Author. Walter Boughton Pitkin, 52, is himself no mean achiever. At 14 he herded cattle, delivered packages for a Detroit drygoods store, then worked on a school census to get money for college, where he paid...