Word: staticity
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...Newark and in London, strange sounds were heard; they probably came either from amateur stations or from static or peculiarities in the apparatus...
Perhaps more than any man in Russia, Alexis Ivanovitch Rykov is the mainstay of the Bolshevik regime. When Lenin was alive, Rykov was always a great power. Lenin supplied the dynamic energy, the eloquence, the courage to say: "This thing must be done." Rykov, engineer and economist, wielded a static power, the patience and knowledge which enabled him to say: "This is the way it can be done...
Since the U. S. has always been a rapidly growing country in constant need of capital, the prevailing interest rates here have practically always been higher than those of the older and more static countries of Europe. Usually London, as the former financial centre of the world, has been able to maintain the lowest money rates, while New York rates have ruled far above...
...Fundamentalist believes there is only one truth, that there never was or never will be any other truth but the Bible. We believe there is a growing evolving truth, and that there is no such thing as static truth. There is however such thing as developing through human experience, and the evolutionary hypothesis seems to be a very natural explanation of that...
...long as among the candidates for admission the percentage of good, average, and poor scholars remains approximately as at present. But it is worthy of note that no provision is made for a different future. Should the percentage of good average scholars rise, or should the percentage remain static and the number of well qualified candidates rise to a point beyond 1000 how would the College limit? From today's report nothing can be guessed on that score, and in a measure the program fails in farsightedness. Yet no doubt the framers of the plan were wise not to look...