Word: cometted
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Fred J. Whipple, tutor and lecturer in the department of Astronomy, recently made public the discovery of a comet which he first observed early in December, and on which he has since been formulating much data...
...heavenly body, to be called Whipple Comet in honor of the Harvard star-gazer, is now as close to the earth as it will over come, so that it can be seen on a clear night with the aid of an ordinary pair of field glasses. It is said to have a tail some three million miles long...
...long as The Forest Rangers sticks to these simple properties, and to firefighting methods, the picture is gaudy, noisy, unsafe and sane. But all too soon Cinemactress Goddard falls off a horse and flattens Cinemactor MacMurray, who immediately feels (or so he says) "like I had swallowed a comet." While he digests it, which takes a long time, fires are in abeyance...
...other camp. Huckleberry Mickey Fenn, the Cambridge Comet, proclaims his charges in superb shape for the tussle. Studded with power is the CRIMSON eleven, from J. Robert Mosking of Leverett House (I think) on one end to Finely Corliss Lament Van Vent far out on the other...
...will try for the U.S. Women's championship at the West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills. Her competition will be less tough than it might have been-Defending Champion Sarah Palfrey Cooke has abdicated her crown in favor of an expected baby. Consequently California's latest comet is favored to win. If she does, she will be the youngest women's champion since Helen Wills (who first won the title...