Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...booming, trading, railroading Atlanta, the War Between the States was a cosmic incident but not the end of the world. Savannah and Decatur (doomed to be a mere suburb), Macon and Augusta might mourn the life that was gone; Atlanta had business to do: rebuilding, shipping to and from the whole southeastern U. S., as John Calhoun had foretold, growing to 22,000 by 1870, 89,872 by 1900. Georgians who were not Atlantans had a saying: "If the folks in Atlanta could suck as hard as they can blow, they would suck the ocean up to their city limits...
...there by the operation of galactic gravity over a long time, or that when the stars originally were formed from the parent nebula, conditions favored the formation of big stars in the region of greatest density. In either case the Cepheid variables seem destined to shed further light on cosmic history...
...cosmic Ritz...
...John Selby - Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). A picturesque, sentimental, occasionally tedious first novel which won the $1,000 prize money as U. S. entry in a cosmic contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition ($15,000). The author, 39, is a syndicate book reviewer for the Associated Press. The hero is a fat, rugged-individualist newspaper publisher, the background obviously Kansas City...
...Open Nights lecture program follows: Friday, Oct. 27, "How Astronomers Observe," by Dr. George Z. Dimitroff; Monday, Oct. 30, "Spectacular Stars," Dr. Dorrit Hoflleit; Wednesday, Nov. 1, "Meteorites, Cosmic Calling Cards," Dr. Fletcher Watson; and Friday, Nov. 3, "Powerhouses in Space, Dr. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin...