Word: exaction
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...Einstein is interested in getting an exact measure of light's speed because it bears on his theories of the curvature and limitation of space. He will be able to put his eye to Dr. Michelson's eyepiece, watch the light flash in a 32-faced revolving mirror placed at one end of the tube. The mirror is adjusted so that by the time the light beam has raced away from it, down the mile tube and back again, another one of its 32 faces has turned to catch the light. By measuring the time it takes...
...Government officials. Secretary of Com merce Lamont made a speech in which he deplored "a very great lack of knowledge on the part of our people generally of the Department [of Commerce] and its organization and what it has to offer in the way of exact information on almost every phase of business, every industry from all over the world...
...films that will be shown in December are "The Art of Spinning and Weaving" and "The Medal Maker". The first was taken in the Colonial Rooms of the Museum and under the exact supervision of the Museum curators. The producers claim that it sets a new standard of authenticity both in colonial backgrounds and in picturization of the crafts of spinning and weaving. "The Medal Maker" was made especially for the American Numismatic Society and demonstrates the making of medals and coins as done by Laura Gardin Fraser, maker of the official government medals of Lindbergh and Byrd...
...Called a meeting of President Hoover's Unemployment Committee in an effort to ascertain the exact number of jobless throughout the land as of Nov. 1 (President Hoover's last estimate...
...November 16--A gift has been made to Phillips Exeter Academy by Edward S. Hark-ness, donor of the Harvard House Plan, for the purpose of making definite improvements in secondary education at Exeter, it was announced here tonight by Lewis Perry, principal of the Academy. The exact sum of money given was not made public...