Word: coronae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corona-haired Scientist Albert Einstein looks more like a concert violinist than most concert violinists do. To many a ruthless young mathematician, fiddling is the best thing Oldster Einstein does nowadays. In any event, he fiddles well enough to be heard in public. One sleety afternoon last week he made one of his rare semi-public concert appearances, in his adopted town, Princeton, N. J. Two things prompted gentle Dr. Einstein to brave reporters and photographers: he thought most of his audience would be children, whom he likes; the occasion was a benefit for the American Friends Service Committee...
...ever expanding horizons of Dr. Shapley's world famous observatory on Garden St., here in Cambridge. The instrument embodies the most recent developments in optics including the new "invisible glass" coating which was developed by Dr. C. H. Cartwright at M. I. T. It will study the mysterious solar corona and prominences, upheavals of which occasionally cause radio storms of serious nature such as the one lact Easter. This is one of the very few instances where astronomical bodies have direct influence on the affairs...
Professor Menzel will give a free public lecture tonight about this instrument and the work done with it this summer. The title of his talk, which is one of a series of regular "Open Night" lectures at the Observatory, will be "Mystery of the Solar Corona...
...lectures are: October 29, "The New Comets," by Dana K. Bailey; November 1, "Mystery of the Solar Corona," by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy; November 6, "In Between the Stars," by Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy; and November 8, "Peculiar Variable Stars," by Dr. Luigi Jacchia...
...doddering old Kaiser Wilhelm's spruce young grandsons, Prince Friedrich of Prussia, finding himself in England at outbreak of war, streaked for the Scottish Highlands to stay with his friends, the scrawny Duke and beauteous Duchess of Buccleuch & Queensbury. At the Corona tion in 1937 the Duchess helped to hold the canopy over the Queen. As Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland the Duke has as his subordinate (Deputy Governor) the Queen's father, the Earl of Strathmore. The Duke's sister is the Duchess of Gloucester, sister-in-law of King George...