Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mystery Particle. Newest and most mysterious particle in the collection of atomic physics is the little thing discovered in cloud-chambers last spring by Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard and by Dr. Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology (TIME, May 10). It does not con-form-as did the positive electron- to any mathematical predictions. Not much is known about it except that it is heavier than an electron, lighter than a proton, possessed of high penetrating power. In Denver last week Dr. Street announced that it may be positive as well as negative...
...Rockettes reach Paris June 25, will put up in suburban St. Cloud. Twelve Frenchwomen, hand-picked by Exposition authorities, will look after the Rockettes during their two-week stay to help keep their discipline and deportment up to its high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...
...sixth or one-one-hundredth of one-one-hundredth of one-quadrillionth until the end of two years, during which time the property owner may redeem the certificate for the amount of the back taxes plus 25% interest for the first year, 8% thereafter. Since the certificate is a cloud on the title, most certificates are eventually redeemed. The buyers are usually mortgagees seeking to protect their position or professional buyers looking for a 25% return on a year's investment...
Harvard Monthly prize of $50, established in 1932 to commemorate the "Harvard Monthly" and for award to the student in the most advanced course in English composition who shows the greatest literary promise, went to Dudley H. Cloud 3G, of Boston...
...metagalactic cloud" appeared on the Harvard plates in the course of a survey that is recording all galaxies in the sky brighter than the 18th magnitude. The system first was signaled out as a "major irregularity" in he distribution of faint galaxies in the southern sky, Dr.Shapley said...