Word: cometed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Observatory yesterday received cables and telegrams verifying the discovery of a comet by Finsler of Bonn, Germany, word of which came first on Saturday in a cable announcing Finsler's discovery as a problematical comet...
...cable confirming it as a comet of the eighth magnitude reached the Observatory from Babelsburg, Germany, on September 19. Yesterday a telegram from the Lick Observatory in California gave Professor Jeffer's confirmation by observation on September 21, declaring it to be of the seventh magnitude, just beyond the range of unaided human vision, but, visible with the aid of a small telescope. If both these observations are correctly reported, the comet seems to be growing brighter...
Occasionally an author really shoots across the sky with all the brilliance and success of a comet. Such an author, it seems to me, is Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyunijian?American spelling). You may like his books?or they may annoy you. At least they are arresting; they have caused a sensation in England and are rapidly becoming the thing to talk of in America...
Among the younger Hungarian dramatists whose wares will Come to Broadway are Ladislaus Fazekas with Four Gentlemen in Dress Suits; Attila Orbok with The Comet; Ladislaus Fodor, whose Marguerite of Navarre will be called Successful Despite Himsclf; and Nicholas Vitez in whose Where Is the Drama? Leo Ditrichstein will star...
From South Africa, via Copenhagen, via the Royal Astronomical Society of London, came the news that a new comet has been discovered by a Mr. Reid at the Royal Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope. Last week it was 123 degrees from the North Pole of the heavens, and 44 degrees to the right of the "first point of Aries" (the Greenwich Observatory of the celestial universe). But it is moving northward at the rate of 30 minutes (half a degree) a day, and to the east by 53 minutes a day. The magnitude of the comet...