Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home! to be home in the distant...
...never given them. In our own neighborhoods at a trifling expense any of us may be carried to polar or equatorial regions where only explorers heretofore have penetrated. The humblest backwoodsman whose vision might otherwise not have gone beyond his country now may watch the march of events in distant hemispheres pass by the door...
...star of the so-called cluster type, has long been known to astronomers, but its velocity was never measured until recently. It is far too faint to be seen with the naked eye, being of the tenth magnitude. It is in the constellation Cepheus, and is 3800 light years distant from the earth, which means that the light from it which astronomers now see through their telescopes started on its journey to the earth in the time of the shepherd kings of Egypt, nearly nineteen hundred years before Christ. That distance is only a small fraction of the distance from...
Dividend for Distant Colleges...
...curved line. In a photograph of the sun taken during a recent eclipse, six stars were shown to be out of their ordinary places, and the explanation is (according to the theory) that the sun exerts an attraction to the light ray as it comes from the distant star, thus bending the ray, and distorting our visual conception of the universe. Thus it may be proved that no stars are where they appear...