Word: cecilia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several hundred people crowded the lecture room to hear Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the greatest woman star-gazers, recount the stupendous facts and figures which are the daily fare of the inhabitants of the Observatory hill...
...lectures are: Wednesday, October 29, "Collossal Stars," by Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchin of the Harvard Observatory...
...variable star symposium will be held in Building D of the Observatory this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. Speakers will include Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory, and Dr. F. L. Whipple, the comet expert of the staff. Also speaking will be Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Dr. T. E. Sterne, and Miss Henrietta H. Swope...
There public "open nights" at the Observatory will be held May 21,22, and 24. The lectures are: May 21, "Exploding Stars," Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin; May 22, "Storms on the Sun," Dr. Leo Goldberg; and May 24, "The Earth As a Clock,". Dr. Fred L. Whipple...
Sixty post-debs of '39 and earlier vintages came in brightly colored ball dresses, but the '40 debs wore demure Court gowns of white. Two ventured crinolines, Lady Cecilia Fitzroy, cousin of the Duke of Grafton, Miss Mary Philippa Gary, niece of Viscount Falkland. Since Britain is bent on making this a democratic war, privates in uniform did not have to stay off the dance floor, as in 1914-8, twirled about the Great Room of the Grosvenor on a social par with their officers. With healthy appetites, debs and escorts gobbled large slices of the vast cake...