Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal in action is very simple, the principle being that of the small boy's allowance. As long as a nation does not fight or play around with rowdy nations, Uncle Sam will give it all the bright shiny pennies and loans and credits that it may want. But should it do anything that might be called naughty Uncle Sam will be severe and not grant it even the most secured dollar's credit. Thus Uncle Sam with his money bags will stand guard over the dove of peace...
...silver lining to the Austria cloud is that, despite outward suffering, there is an inner healing force working its way through the pangs of deflation to the bright sunshine of economic and financial prosperity...
...other half of the prize was given tr. Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mount Wilson Observatory for measurement of the distance to two remote spiral nebulae in Andromeda and Triangulum. He found in these nebulae numbers of variable stars. Measurement of the brightness of these stars established that they were 4,000 to 8,000 times as bright as the sun. From this date, he calculated the distance from the earth to those stars as 930,000 light years,* or about five and a half quintillion (5,500,000,000,000,000,000) miles. As compared to the belief of only...
Everett, Green captain and Mansur, center ice player, are the bright stars of the Dartmouth sextet. Everett has not played much lately owing to a severe illness. In the feature contest of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, with Yale as the opponent, he got into the game during the last period only. Mansur is fast, and a clever stick handler who will give Hodder plenty of work to night...
...addition to the above-mentioned stars, a wealth of other material is at the coach's command. The outlook for good material is particularly bright because of the recent union of the Institute of 1770 with the Hasty Pudding Club, thereby making Sophomores as well as Juniors and Seniors eligible for parts...