Word: cometted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promising one of the heavens' most brilliant spectacles in recent years, the new Peltier comet, first of the season, gives indications that it will become visible to the naked eye just before sunrise during the latter part of July. No other comet has swum into man's unaided ken since...
Credit for the discovery goes to Leslie C. Peltier, garage employee of Delphos, Ohio. One of the world's most distinguished amateur astronomers, Mr. Peltier hereby chalks up the fourth in his string of comet discoveries; his other most recent success was achieved...
Compton Effect. In his teens Arthur built a glider that actually flew, published articles on aeronautics, made an astronomical clock for a telescope, took pictures of Halley's comet. He got his Ph.D. at Princeton with a dazzling record. After two years of industrial research on lamps for Westinghouse, he said to his wife, "Betty, I'm going back to university work." This was something of a gamble, but he landed a research fellowship at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford. He was appointed head of the physics department at Washington University (St. Louis), went from there to Chicago...
...disappeared in the darkness like a comet with a trail of brilliant flame from the engine exhaust," said Pilot C. J. Melrose to a group of worried Singapore airport officials one night last week. Just in after a bad battle with a monsoon over the Bay of Bengal between Allahabad and Singapore, Pilot Melrose in his slow plane had seen the sleek Lockheed-Altair Ladv Southern Cross of Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith rocket past at 200 m.p.h., only 200 ft. above the waves. At that rate he should have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when...
...well-to-do "investment counsellor" in Los Angeles, red-headed Maurice (''California Comet'') McLoughlin, who won his last national championship (doubles) in 1914, has given up tennis for golf which he plays in the low 70's. Last week, photographers found him giving pointers to his red-headed son Maurice Jr., 16, on his famed ''cannon-ball'' serve which revolutionized tennis...