Word: cometted
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British Overseas Airways Corp., which hopes to grab the lead in commercial aviation by flying the first jet transports on regular routes, announced that early next month it will start its 36-passenger Comet jetliner on weekly service to Johannesburg. With a cruising speed of 490 m.p..h., the Comet is scheduled to make the 6,724-mile run (five stops en route) in the flying time of 18 hours and 40 minutes, 12 hours less than current schedules...
...acres of land on which it now rises remain of the original grounds. Before the coming of the Comet of 1843 the site, on Summer House Hill, just west of Radcliffe dorms, was purchased with the idea of erecting a better building when sufficient funds were available...
Public spirited Bostonians rescued the embryonic Observatory from obscurity, however. In March 1843, the appearance of a bright daylight comet aroused popular interest so that the present Observatory has often been spoken of as being "born of a comet." Funds were raised for a telescope that was to be second to none than operating...
...first work that Director Bond undertook, which was continued by his son and successor, Professor George P. Bond was an extensive series of zone observations, elaborate drawings of the planet Saturn, and work on the comet of 1858, and on the nebula in Orion. He and his son also worked to determine terrestrial longitudes for the United States Coast Survey. Cambridge is still recognized as the "Birthplace of American Longitudes...
...Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed his first ride in a jet aircraft: a 72-minute, 500-m.p.h. test flight over southern England and the Channel. The plane: British Overseas Airways' new Comet airliner, designed to launch commercial jet travel this spring between Britain and South Africa...