Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cars was a refreshing breath of optimism. In Washington the Railroad Retirement Act went out as unconstitutional. In Miami Legionaries shouted for immediate cash payment of the Bonus. In Denver and Albany there were hunger marchers. Donald Richberg had just been named co-ordinator-in-general to set the cosmic alphabet in order. From coast to coast the issue was whether Harry Hopkins, playing Santa Claus at the rate of $140,000,000 a month, was corrupting the electorate. On all sides were squabbles, hopes, issues. And then in 48 states men marched to the polls and overwhelmed...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, follow of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, has been appointed lecturer on Cosmic Physics for the current academic year, it was announced yesterday...
...front cover) Astronomy deals with Earth, and with everything discernible beyond Earth. Its task is detecting, locating, describing and classifying countless millions of diverse objects-meteors, planets, comets, stars, shining streams of gas. dark clouds of cosmic debris, galaxies and super-galaxies glimmering across unimaginable gulfs of space. To avoid duplication of effort, to facilitate exchange of information and encourage cooperative research, astronomy's huge and complex task was years ago brought under the scrutiny and partial control of an international body. The International Astronomical Union, undisturbed by terrestrial wars and politics, held its first congress...
...Byrd Antarctic Expedition I, including information on the air currents, meteorology, animal life, geology and general physical characteristics of Marie (his wife) Byrd Land, a hitherto unknown territory of 250,000 sq. mi. which he discovered and claimed for the U. S.; a mass of data on cosmic rays, Polar meteorology, astronomy, geology, hydrography, oceanography, terrestrial magnetism, glaciology, botany, bacteriology, biology...
Ivan Alexander Getting, B.S. '32, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He held the Thomas A. Edison Scholarship for four years, and specialized in physics, since then he has been at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship doing research on the effect of the rotation of the galaxy on cosmic rays...