Word: staticity
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...Paine Hall could afford to step down from the rostrum of oratory and let the argument proceed in a series of quick rebuttals. The question was "Resolved, That the jury system should be abolished," and Johnson, of Carleton, introducing the affirmative case, claimed that the jury is a static part of a dynamic society. A. L. Raffa ocC reported that it is based upon the common man and is essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from...
...famous marathon runner, and other athletes and non-athletes, made by having them alternately run on a treadmill and lic still on a couch, show that the athlete's blood changes less than that of the ordinary man in motion. The acidosis of De Mar's blood remained static while running at an average rate of 5.8 miles per hour, when he consumed 3.5 liters of oxygen per minute and kept a pulse rate of 101. For comparison a non-athlete in the same test consumed 1.5 liters of oxygen a minute, keeping a pulse rate of 192, and lowering...
...probably as old as man," she said, "but most of the early formulas were magical and of no real utility. In France contraception on a large scale has existed for 100 years, due to the inheritance laws which share property equally among the children. Many blame France's static population on this, and the French Government has passed extremely strict laws against spreading birth control information, but France has no higher birth rate than England whose population increases 300,000 annually and where contraception is perfectly legal. In Holland the spread of contraception has been rapid in the last...
...reception in the winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during the last two months of 1928 has shown considerable improvement. It may be mentioned that the high degree of static due to thunder storms in the summer months results in the fact that the average radio listener will decrease the sensitivity of his set in summer to lesson these disturbances with the necessary accompaniment of low audible intensity of distant stations. Hence the general impression of a low intensity accompanying...
Beset by doubts, historical philosophers base their theories on one certitude. Civilizations are never static. They are always in motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...