Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen observatories, singled out for especial compliment Edwin Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years ago in Nashville, Mo. His mother was one of the Massachusetts Stowells who reached the U. S. in 1640. His father, a teacher, died when Harlow and his brother John were boys. Though there was not much money...
...last week in Munich, including well-rendered "architectural" pictures of Munich's Alter Hof (see cut) and of its National Theatre, a country house outside Munich. It all ended in August 1914. Hitler, a humble, alien lover of monarchical Germany, enlisted, not in the Austrian Army, but in the 16th Infantry Regiment of the King of Bavaria...
From beneath a $1,000 painting of Venice belonging to American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.'s Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, a Manhattan restorer scratched out about one-third of a nude girl with red roses in her blonde hair, placed the original painting in the early 16th Century, thought it might be the work of an old master. Commented Mr. Woolley: "I think he's unduly excited about it. When I saw him last he thought it was a Michelangelo...
Amid the bustle of his usual routine last week, Pope Pius XI sang a low mass of thanksgiving in celebration of his 78th birthday. In this the 56th year of his priesthood, the 16th of his episcopate and the 13th of his pontificate, the Pope told his official family: ''We do not know why people worry about our health. We have just passed through a very laborious Holy Year, but we feel just as well today as when we began it. We expect to live to celebrate not alone our own jubilee after 25 years reign, but also...
Replying to your letter of May 16th, would say that Frank J. Fracassi was convicted in the City Court of Buffalo on May 10th of petit larceny, was placed on probation for one year and ordered to make restitution, by Judge Joseph J. Kelly...