Word: 180th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossing the International Date Line, the eclipse accomplished the feat-not rare for eclipses-of ending the day before it started. It began on Wednesday, finished on Tuesday. Since it crossed the Equator twice and also the 180th meridian, it entered four hemispheres. Most curious of all, although until this week there had been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only...
Four times a year out in the Pacific Ocean, near the 180th Meridian, TIME goes regularly to Midway Island, when the little cable ship Dickinson journeys there with supplies for the cable station...
President Conant was among nine men who were yesterday awarded honorary degrees by Columbia University at its 180th annual Commencement Exercises. He was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, together with Ernest William Brown, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale...
...both possible and probable that sea currents during the next fortnight would crack a passageway through the pack at about the 180th degree of longitude. The two Byrd ships could then get through, load personnel and goods, and scurry back before the pack reformed...