Word: cometted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haired Maurice McLoughlin was obviously a "comet." Sad, sly little Henri Cochet, with rings under his eyes, is a "wizard." Tilden, tall, thin, dramatic, made an almost funnypaper contrast with William Johnston, short, thin, efficient: they were "Big Bill" and "Little Bill." Last week the galleries at Wimbledon, after watching some tennis as great as Wimbledon ever saw, felt around for a nickname for its exponent, a lanky, lazy-looking California boy who had come over to play in his first "world championship...
...Delporte Object only ten million miles away and while astronomers were calculating its nature, Dr. Reinmuth found his Object only eight million miles away. It may at times come within 4,350,000 mi. of Earth. Only heavenly things known to have ever approached closer were the regular PonsWinnecke comet (3,500,000 mi., June 27, 1927) and the vanished Lexell comet (1,500,000 mi. in 1770). Another point: the Reinmuth Object swung within the Earth's orbit. Only the Moon and an occasional comet head have been known to do that. The heavy Moon...
...effect on the Earth of a collision with a comet of any size would be negligible, except for possible extensive damage over limited areas," said Dr. S. L. Whipple, Astronomer and supervisor of photography at the Harvard College Observatory, in an interview yesterday...
...density of the average comet is so small that one can safely regard it as being composed of widely-scattered meteors which, for reasons as yet uncertain, are activated to the point of incandescence when in the neighborhood of the sun. If the earth were to pass through the nucleus of a comet, only a small number of these chunks of matter would hit the Earth, and, at their average velocity of 20 miles per second, the friction of the atmosphere would be sufficient to destroy the smaller chunks entirely, and to diminish the size of the large ones...
...ceremony was ridiculous but impressive. In a long box erected in the curve of the horseshoe stadium, sat grey-haired Mr. Sears, Henry Ward Slocum and some 30 other onetime champions and proxies for a few, among them Maurice E. ("Comet") McLoughlin of California. Across the three stadium courts stood a small table. Behind the table stood Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (who likes sailing better than tennis) and three members of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association...