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Another unusual star was described to the American Astronomical Society meeting at Ann Arbor last week, by young Dr. Ralph B. Baldwin of the University of Pennsylvania. Gamma, of the constellation Cassiopeia (visible in the Northern hemisphere), is 400 times brighter than the sun, nearly five times as hot. Year ago Gamma began to grow brighter, like a nova, or exploding star. Astronomers were sure that the increased brilliance would be accompanied by generation of additional heat, but they were mistaken. For the temperature of Gamma dropped from 28,800° F. to 15,660°. Last May the star...
Walter Milbank Pillsbury, Ann Arbor, Michigan--Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan...
Last week 125 of the numerous people in the U. S. who are professionally preoccupied with the traffic problem went to Ann Arbor, Mich, for the two-week National Institute for Traffic Safety Training, held at the University of Michigan. In Ann Arbor they paid $10, got a room at the Michigan Union, signed up for classes. Several things they were taught might have surprised many a citizen...
...magazines: Ken, Esquire, Film Fun, Thrilling Love, and 24 others; in Ann Arbor, Mich. The agency: ordinance committee of the city council, consisting of three University of Michigan professors, three local businessmen and a tailor. Authority: an ordinance passed in 1895 prohibiting the distribution of obscene literature, providing for fines or jail sentences for violators. After two days of loud protest from the university campus. Ken and Esquire were removed from the banned list on condition that they refrain from publishing obscene matter. Judge of obscene matter: City Attorney William M. Laird...
...Arbor, Mich...