Word: arcturus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four observatories, Harvard, Ann Arbor, Yorkes, and Alleghony, will train their telescopes on Arcturus Saturday and, in the event that it is clear weather, will send its light to Chicago to open the World's Fair at exactly 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time...
...Arcturus has been selected as the star whose light will be used to open the Fair because we are now receiving light which left the star in 1893, the date of the last World's Fair at Chicago...
When President Roosevelt opens the whole show May 27, he will use a beam of starlight from Arcturus instead of a bottle of milk, a beam that started towards the earth the year Chicago last held a world's fair. That was in 1893, only 40 years ago, but the party Rufus Dawes and his brother Charles and their Chicago friends are giving this year to (they hope) 50 million guests, is "A Century of Progress," referring to Chicago's founding...
...could officiate June 1. The President was sorry but that day he would be handing out diplomas at Annapolis. How about May 27? "That's bully!" declared President Roosevelt. For the opening the President will push a button connected with a beam of starlight which left Arcturus during Chicago's last World's Fair 40 years ago. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt made the following appointments: Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge after adjournment of Congress; Oscar...
Authorities of Harvard College Observatory are cooperating with certain observatories in the Middle West to receive a beam of light from the star Arcturus, which, having been turned into electrical energy and highly magnified, will turn on the thousands of lights at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago on the night of Thursday, June 1. If the night is clear, the telescope at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago will act as transmitter, but if it is cloudy through the Middle West, Harvard will have the honor...