Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In several recent issues you have given accounts of people struck by lightning on the golf course or other places in the open [TIME, Aug. 15, 22]. Are there records of automobiles ever having been struck by lightning, and does the movement of the car affect its chances of being hit? What danger would there be to the occupants? I think the answer to this question might be of general interest...
...Records of automobiles struck by lightning are rare. Says an international authority on thunderstorms, Sir George Clarke Simpson, Director of the British Meteorological Office, people riding in an automobile with an all-steel top are practically immune from lightning, even though the automobile itself may be struck. The movement of the car does not affect its chances of being hit. Safe rule in a thunderstorm: drive slowly...
David W. Nussbaum '39, chairman of the committee to arrange the meeting emphasized that it would "neither be a rally nor a 'Save Czechoslovakia' movement" but an orderly discussion of the entire question...
They are Doctor F. Deutsch, of the University of Prague, a Sudeten German, but anti-Nazi and loyal to the democracy, and Jacob A. De Haas, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships. Both are students of the economic and political background of the greater German movement and the Czech problem. Deutsch was the Czech delegate to the World Youth Congress last summer...
Breuer's modern residential dwellings are masterpieces of their type. Lacking the stiffness and coldness of many Cubistic creations, they have movement, life, and fluidity which makes them extremely pleasing...