Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...furnish either classical or dance music, two ventriloquists, an harmonica player, two men who have entertained extensively with their acts of magic, clog dancers, a student who has visited Alaska in an attempt to scale Mount Fairweather, a young American who holds the world's record for speed in climbing the Matter horn, and Chinese, Hindu, and Russian students who are prepared to lecture on different phases of life in their respective countries. These lectures are illustrated with colored slides...
...seriousness a prominent Indian delegate estimated that to deal with, without skimping, the questions which occupied Sir John Simon and Lord Irwin for 36 months, the conference must sit for at least 34 months. But the British cry last week was "Speed!" The MacDonald government tentatively set three months as the conference time limit...
...guard to keep the public from annoying her husband, will not permit him to go ashore in New York. The other two distinguished gentlemen are already in California. One is Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, on leave of absence from the University of Chicago to repeat his measurement of the speed of light. For measuring a metre in terms of light he received the Nobel prize in 1907. The third gentleman will be the host -Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, head of Caltech, prizewinner in 1923 for his work on electrons...
...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...
...American will fly the 821 mi. between the U. S. and Bermuda, landing there by courtesy of Imperial Airways, which holds exclusive air rights on the islands. Imperial will fly the 3,699-mi. route between Bermuda, Azores and England in two daylight jumps, requiring an average cruising speed in excess of 130 m.p.h. At last report, Aeropostale had won from Portugal the exclusive rights at Horta, Azores (TIME, March 3). Observers last week predicted Aeropostale would gladly yield entry in return for a part in the transatlantic system...