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THE PENDULUM'S SWING
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Edgar Allan Poe paired a pendulum with menace.
In some circles, the pendulum and its swing have been accorded
special, even occult powers. Many believe that the pendulum's
mesmerizing motion induces hypnosis. Others say the steady sweep,
followed by stillness, enables fortune telling.
Roch Preite operates Pendulum Hypnotic Solutions in Old Bethpage,
N.Y. A slow arcing pendulum can be hypnotic for several reasons, he
said.
"The thing that catches one's eye, I think, is the...
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The pendulum's swing.
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Time Lapse: The Pendulum Is Stilled
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; On a raw day in October 1969, a day during the Autumn of Discontent that launched the great Moratorium March, youth power protests took possession of the headlines and the streets. Students from all over the country lined the avenues and boulevards of Washington. Many of them marched down
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MU professor, student into swing with museum pendulum
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
; MADELYN PENNINO Physics professor John Dooley, of Millersville University, is so fascinated with pendulums that his wife says he's obsessed. So when proponents of the future Lancaster Science Factory asked the university to build a 30-foot pendulum for the museum, Dooley knew he was the right
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The pendulum is swinging toward center
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; When I was in college learning to be a mining engineer, all us fresh-faced young calculator-punchers were taught the principle of attenuation. Attenuation is what happens when a pendulum is left alone to swing freely. Over time, gravity causes the pendulum's swing to "attenuate" - become shorter
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Pendulum swings like a pendulum do. (Transport Packaging).
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; Elsewhere in this issue you'll read stories focused on what we editors have discovered regarding the current state of the material handling industry -- so far. It's a mid-year report. While talking with manufactures and users of transport packaging material, a word, or phrase kept recurring with
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