Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Telescopic photographs taken at the University after the receipt of the cablegram show the comet to be brighter than Baade's comet, which was recently discovered, and to be moving more rapidly. It is going southeast at the rate of between three and four diameters of the moon per day. At present it is of the seventh magnitude; somewhat too faint, to be seen with the naked...
...prospects of a successful season are brighter than they have been for several years. Only one member of last year's team, R. E. Wheeler '22, has been lost by graduation, and eleven veterans may be counted upon. These are: J. M. Begg '24, A. D. Best '24, Robert Brandt '23, W. O. Clark '23, W. H. Forbes '23, H. H. Fuller Jr. '23, J. B. Paine Jr. '23, F. T. Potter '24, Donald Maxwell '23, J. J. Sack '23. These men, reinforced by the members of last year's Freshman team will provide exceptionally good material from which...
...towards the promotion of international peace since the inception of the League. The League had previously admitted utter failure in dealing with the same problems which America successfully solved. "Disassociated from the cauldron of Europe's political affairs", he concluded, "the United States can lead into a new and brighter era of international relations...
...positions of stars or their apparent directions in space have been observed and measured with increasing accuracy. Before anything definite could be learned, however, as to the actual structure of the sidereal universe in which the earth plays its ultra-microscopic part, the actual distance to many of the brighter stars had to be measured. When Copernicus promulgated the heliocentric theory in 1543 through the publication of his epoch-making book. 'De Revolution-ibus Orbium Coelestium", it was seen that the motion of the earth in its orbit about the sun should produce an apparent displacement or change in direction...
...conceive. The contributions of astronomy in interpreting the sky and the earth's plane in the universe have exerted a profound influence on men's thinking in all ages'. For this reason, perhaps, astronomy makes so the casual star gazer who has learned to recognize familiar groups and the brighter planets...