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Word: cometted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's astronomical observers admitted last night that they are unable to find Gale's comet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY MEN STUMPED, UNABLE TO DISCOVER COMET | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

Last Tuesday, Mr. Gale, an Australian, discovered a disturbance which be declared to be a comet of the tenth magnitude, in Scorpio, near Mars, and moving coastward, though not fast enough to have gotten out of telescopic range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY MEN STUMPED, UNABLE TO DISCOVER COMET | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

Technically, the comet is in right ascension 16 hours, 13 minutes, 30 seconds, declination 20 degrees, 27 minutes south...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY MEN STUMPED, UNABLE TO DISCOVER COMET | 4/13/1937 | See Source »

...policed Flint during the General Motors Sit-Down, planted themselves on their armory steps, refused to budge until their captain handed them each a $5 bill from the troop's athletic fund. When his 40 employes sat down, President Louis N. Kapp of Chicago's Comet Model Airplane Co. got out his fiddle, made it a party. In many cases the Sit-Down was a craze like marathon dancing or miniature golf. But it was also a grim and growing Problem, which Congress last week found itself unable longer to ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Everybody's Doing It | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...There was a comet when Caesar died," he recalls. The comet turns out to be only a meteor. "We shall have to die without a comet," muses Napoleon Bonaparte. The play ends with Marchand reading to him from the wars of Hannibal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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