Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reviewing the whole field of astronomical advances made during the last year by astronomers all over the country. Shapley talked on a theory of R.A. Lyttleton of Princeton University who has suggested that formerly the sun had a companion star...
...This companion, after being partially disrupted by the close passage of a third star, long ago deserted the neighborhood, leaving in the sun's gravitational care the debris of the creative encounter. The present planets, formed from the eruption filaments in much the manner described in earlier tidal revolution cheories, are endowed with momenium derived from the parent star...
...famous play by Hesumarchals with a cast including actors from the Paris Opera and the Opera Comique will be the first of the French Films given this year, showing in four performances at the Geographical Institue today and tomorrow. "Les Noces de Figaro" will be given as a companion piece at these performances...
...English Universities have long been renowned for the output of their presses. "The Oxford Companion to English Literature" and the "Cambridge Histories" hold positions of unique importance throughout British scholastic circles and Yale has ably followed their lead with the "Chronicles of America" and "Series of Younger Pocts". Such work on the part of a University press adds immeasurably to the prestige of the parent body and stimulates interest both in the college and elsewhere...
...works by members of the faculty, yet including subjects of broader interest than specialized research, it can have a very great part to play in maintaining that note of progressive liberality which Harvard so ably sounded at the Tercentenary. As edition of American classics, an anthology or even a Companion to American Verse would awaken interest immensely in both the American classics and the University press itself...