Word: 1920s
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During the past 100 years, astronomers have discovered quasars, pulsars, black holes and planets orbiting distant suns. But all these pale next to the discoveries Edwin Hubble made in a few remarkable years in the 1920s. At the time, most of his colleagues believed the Milky Way galaxy, a swirling collection of stars a few hundred thousand light-years across, made up the entire cosmos. But peering deep into space from the chilly summit of Mount Wilson, in Southern California, Hubble realized that the Milky Way is just one of millions of galaxies that dot an incomparably larger setting...
Okay, so it's not James Dean; it's a good way to spend a Thursday afternoon regardless. Davis Center Associate and Tufts Associate Professor of Russian Gregory Carleton presents the literary seminar, "Rebels with Too Much Cause: Representing Youth in the Late 1920s." Bergson/Ulam Room, Coolidge Hall 215, Davis Center, 1737 Cambridge St. 495-4037. 4 to 6 p.m. FREE...
Looking at Madame Moitessier and her double, one can see why Ingres had such an obsessional hold on Picasso. All the dropsical women of his so-called classic period, the early 1920s, are peasant cousins of this goddess of the salon, and the rhythmic curves of Ingres's drawing would continue to serve Picasso as emblems of peace and sexual satisfaction...
That sort of p.r. is helping reverse years of declining membership. It is about 5,000 today, in contrast to a high of 5 million in the 1920s. But the Klan added 36 new chapters last year, for a total of 163, according to the Montgomery, Ala.-based Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Similarly, the neo-Nazi National Alliance--headed by William Pierce, author of the race-war fantasy The Turner Diaries--grew by 13 chapters...
...FAMILY IMMIGRATED TO THE United States sometime in the 1920s. His son, Paul, doesn't remember the exact year. Sen grew up straddling two cultures--the traditional Chinese environment of his home and the playgrounds of Boston's public schools. When he came of age and his country called on him, he shipped off for the battlefields of World...