Word: cecilia
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...Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, for a study of the physical nature of variable stars...
...apparently could not reject the cast-offs to those authors who print their best elsewhere. The contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song for St. Cecilia's Day," combines with a host of insignificantly obscure poetry to bewilder the reader and to detract from the worthwhile portions of the issue...
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...