Word: comet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fall River Line auctioned off its ships. Last December the boats of Eastern Steamship Line were requisitioned by the Government. Last Sunday the four-decked buff-funneled Arrow, last ship of the Colonial Line, ploughed down the Sound from Providence to New York, to follow its two sister ships (Comet & Meteor) into Government service...
Long distinguished for his brawn, he has new won publicity for his scientific ability by computing the orbit of the new comet discovered last Saturday by Fred L. Whippe, lecturer on Astronomy. The computation, described by Thomas as "a routine astronomical calculation," involved a differential equation with six arbitrary constants...
...comet, which cannot yet be seen by the naked eye, has been recorded by patrol cameras at the Harvard Observatory, Fred L. Whipple, lecturer and tutor in the department of Astronomy announced yesterday...
Whipple said that the comet, which now appears almost overhead in the constellation Coma Berenices, is moving in a southwesterly direction and should become visible through small telescopes in about six weeks...
...fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...