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...What was the apparent altitude of the meteor when first seen? When last seen? This does not ask for the altitude in feet, but for an estimate of the angular altitude, as such a fraction of the distance from the horizon to the zenith, or in degrees...
...Mount Wilson Observatory announced that it had completed measurement of the variable star Mira and found it to be, by angular measurement, .06 of a second of arc - about 25% larger than Betelgeuse. It is believed to be about 165 light years distant, which makes its diameter about 250,000,000 miles. Only one larger star, Antares, has been measured.* Therefore, if the centre of Mira were where the center of our Sun is, the orbit of the Earth would be some 25,000,000 miles inside the surface of Mira...
...cellists of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra sat and smiled. An angular gentleman in an ill-fitting dress suit, Wilhelm Furtwangler by name, who had just completed his farewell concert as guest conductor, was asking them to get up, to bow as he himself was bowing in gracious acknowledgment of the battering applause that assaulted his ears. But the cellists smiled at him; they beat with their right hands upon the claret-colored wood of their big fiddles to show that they, too, admired as much as the assembly which now, through the clapping, had begun to shout his name...
Reginald is a tall, angular man with a long student face and a type of bald head which seems to be the common affliction of able bankers. He is 60 years of age and for about 40 of those years he has devoted himself entirely to higher mathematics, law, and the study of finance. In "the City" (London's Wall Street section), Mr. McKenna is Chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, one of the greatest British banks. But he is more than this; he is looked upon as one of the greatest authorities on budgetary finance...
...mask that hides the "fierce revolutionary spirit that burns deep down in her soul"; Mme. Kollontai, attractive wife of a handsome sailor, a fervent but impractical feminist, but with an intelligence that has won her the place of Soviet Ambassador; Lenin's sister "taller than he," with angular features and the "prim air of a typical 'schoolmarm' "; Mme. Muralov, wife of War Lord Trotzky's right-hand...