Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard University Observatory shows points of advantage over most other university observatories in the country in several instances, according to the article which will appear in the sixth issue of the University Guide next spring. It is stated that Harvard owns the largest university astronomical library in America, and the largest collection by far of glass plates, pictures of the various stars and other objects in the heavens...
...Harvard Observatory during the past 45 years. All of these plates are in current use in the study of the motions, magnitudes, and variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only by the Observatory staff, but also by frequent visitors from observatories in America and abroad. The collection is being increased at the rate of approximately 4000 plates annually, so rapidly that an additional fireproof plate vault must be erected soon...
Phases of contemporary America will be brought in a moving show to the great Forum that is the Yale Bowl tomorrow. What place the market fairs of Lyons yesterday filled or the medieval fields of the cloth of gold, the growth of the football stadia more adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing...
...brother. Others believe that it was painted at Newport, R. J., when Franklin was visiting his brother there, when Benjamin was about 30 years of age. It is now generally established, however, that the picture was executed by Robert Feke, the best of the pre-Copley artists in America, in Philadelphia in 1746, when Franklin was 40 years of age. It shows Franklin at about the time of his retirement from the printing business with what was for those days an ample fortune. He was then devoting himself seriously to the study of experimental science, to which, for the previous...
Gloria Swanson, interviewed for London's weekly Sketch, said: "Skyscrapers drain their inhabitants of colour, and gradually kill them. . . . Half of the women of America are sex-starved. Their husbands cease to be lovers almost as soon as they are married. . . . The sex-starvation of those women is the explanation of a hundred American phenomena which might otherwise puzzle you. It explains their strange crusades, their extraordinary cliques and fetiches. . . . When I grow old, I want to have an old brain as well as an old body...