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Morley and intense
Four days later, organising director Julia Morley ( 1941 -) resigned because of the intense pressure from the newspapers.

Morley and work
He registered as a conscientious objector, but refused to accept a condition that would have required his giving up his work at Morley College.
Katie, refusing to ask her family for help, goes to work as a maid in the home of political power broker Agatha Morley ( Ethel Barrymore ) and her son, U. S. Representative Glenn Morley ( Joseph Cotten ).
In 1958, a year after leaving the Royal College, Morley moved to New York City, where he saw exhibitions of the work of Jackson Pollock and Balthus, both of whose treatment of their paintings ' surfaces influenced him greatly.
His early memorial work included monuments for Thomas Chatterton in the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol ( 1780 ), Mrs Morley in Gloucester Cathedral ( 1784 ), and the Rev.
In 1900, he began work with Edward Morley on the detection of aether drift, at the time one of the " hot " areas of fundamental physics.
In 1926 Thompson arrived in the Yucatan of Mexico under the direction of Morley to work at Chichen Itza.
Their work resulted in US Patent 4, 548, 082, " Hearing aids, signal supplying apparatus, systems for compensating hearing deficiencies, and methods " by A Maynard Engebretson, Robert E Morley, Jr. and Gerald R Popelka, filed in 1984.
His study in 1907 with Sir Walter Morley Fletcher of the connection between lactic acid and muscle contraction was one of the central achievements of his work on the biochemistry of the cell.
Technically they were skillful, and this is the quality that impressed the English commentators the most: " deep skill " was the phrase Thomas Morley used to describe his work when he published several of his compositions in a collection of 1598, ten years after his death.
Composers such as Thomas Morley, the only contemporary composer to set Shakespeare, and whose work survives, published collections of their own, roughly in the Italian manner but yet with a unique Englishness ; interest in the compositions of the English Madrigal School have enjoyed a considerable revival in recent decades.
The other brilliant cartoonist to sign his work was Allan Morley and he was the first to do so.
He was perhaps best known for his work on television, including two episodes of The Twilight Zone ; playing Glen Morley, a fictional congressman from Minnesota, based on Windom's own great-grandfather and namesake in The Farmer's Daughter ; the character of John Monroe on the sitcom My World and Welcome to It, for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series ; as Commodore Matt Decker, commander of the doomed U. S. S.
In 2006, an extensive exhibition showcasing 50 years of Lewis Morley work was displayed at the Art Gallery of NSW.
* Pathe Film of Morley at work
Morley founded the Precious Metal label sometime in the late 1980s to document, first on cassette and later LP and CD, his own work as Gate.
Canadian L. W. Morley independently proposed a similar explanation in January 1963, but his work was rejected by the scientific journals Nature and Journal of Geophysical Research, and remained unpublished until 1967, when it appeared in the literary magazine Saturday Review.
Morley encouraged the settlers in their work and assured them that their community would grow to be one of the best in the mountains.
Part of the force of Morley ’ s work is a boldness to go as far as she can within her medium.
Hayden Carruth has written of Morley ’ s work, “" How simple the language is, not a rhetorical gesture, not an unnecessary adjective, yet heightened by interweaving lines, cadences, and tones, by urgency of feeling and fineness of perception.
His work, along with that of fellow Briton Fred Vine and Canadian Lawrence Morley, showed how variations in the magnetic properties of rocks forming the ocean floor could be consistent with, and ultimately help confirm, Harry Hammond Hess's 1962 theory of seafloor spreading.
Vine's work, along with that of Drummond Matthews and Lawrence Morley of the Geological Survey of Canada, helped put the variations in the magnetic properties of the ocean crust into proper context ( Vine – Matthews – Morley hypothesis ).
Morley Gallery is an integral part of College life and there is a strong commitment to exhibit work made by Morley students.

Morley and Michelson
Some months later, FitzGerald published his conjecture in Science to explain the baffling outcome of the 1887 ether-wind experiment of Michelson and Morley.
The MichelsonMorley experiment compared the time for light to reflect from mirrors in two orthogonal directions.
Box plot of the MichelsonMorley experiment, showing several summary statistics.
The resultant theory copes with experiment better than classical mechanics, e. g. in the MichelsonMorley experiment that supports postulate 2, but also has many surprising consequences.
A diagram of the MichelsonMorley experiment
These are the MichelsonMorley experiment, the Kennedy – Thorndike experiment, and the Ives – Stilwell experiment.
The MichelsonMorley experiment was designed to detect second order effects of the " aether wind " – the motion of the aether relative to the earth.
The interpretation of the null result of the MichelsonMorley experiment is that the round-trip travel time for light is isotropic ( independent of direction ), but the result alone is not enough to discount the theory of the aether or validate the predictions of special relativity.
While the MichelsonMorley experiment showed that the velocity of light is isotropic, it said nothing about how the magnitude of the velocity changed ( if at all ) in different inertial frames.
The MichelsonMorley experiment was used to disprove that light propagated through a luminiferous aether.
* 1887 – Albert Michelson and Edward Morley in their experiment do not detect the ether drift
The MichelsonMorley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1885, Michelson began a collaboration with Edward Morley, spending considerable time and money to confirm with higher accuracy Fizeau's 1851 experiment on Fresnel's drag coefficient, to improve on Michelson's 1881 experiment, and to establish the wavelength of light as a standard of length.
At this time Michelson was professor of physics at the Case School of Applied Science, and Morley was professor of chemistry at Western Reserve University, which shared a campus with the Case School on the eastern edge of Cleveland.
In 1886, Michelson and Morley successfully confirmed Fresnel's drag coefficient – this result was also considered as a confirmation of the stationary aether concept.
Michelson and Morley created an improved version of the Michelson experiment with more than enough accuracy to detect this hypothetical effect.
Michelson and Morley and other early experimentalists using interferometric techniques in an attempt to measure the properties of the luminiferous aether, used monochromatic light only for initially setting up their equipment, always switching to white light for the actual measurements.
( Afterward, Michelson and Morley ceased their aether drift measurements and started to use their newly developed technique to establish the wavelength of light as a standard of length.
The Fizeau experiment and its 1886 repetition by Michelson and Morley apparently confirmed the stationary aether with partial aether dragging, and refuted complete aether dragging.
On the other hand, the much more precise MichelsonMorley experiment ( 1887 ) apparently confirmed complete aether dragging and refuted the stationary aether.

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