Word: domes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University is a planetarium and its faculty is the firmament cast on the dome, then Harvard has, during the last week, greatly brightened her projector. For to Harvard comes Robert Frost, owner of a scintillating name in American poetry. Also Go Strawinsky, master of savage rhythms and colorful orchestrations, conceded by even his intellectual critics as one of the three most popular living composers. And finally I. A. Richards, propounder of impressive literary theories and leading searcher after values in this drifting generation. The total is a quite amazing addition to the list of big names sported by Harvard...
Brigadier General Maxwell Murray, commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade, ascended to the dome of the Capitol one day last week and trained a pair of high-powered binoculars down on Pennsylvania Avenue. Lining the street on both sides, all the way to the White House, was a solid wall of U. S. soldiers and marines. Behind the walls massed the Washington populace, patrolled by 751 policemen, 400 firemen. Overhead roared nine flying fortresses, 42 Army pursuit ships. Drawn up from the Capitol to Union Station were more soldiers, and filling the station plaza were cavalry, 30 tanks, a battery...
Marriage disclosed. Henry M. Blackmer, onetime Midwest Refining Co. head, fugitive from the U. S. since 1924, when he was wanted as witness in the Teapot Dome investigation; to Eide Norena, Norwegian soprano; in Paris. The French Foreign Office, fearing to offend the U. S., has withheld citizenship from Blackmer but let him go on living in Paris after his U. S. passport expired...
Last week Carl Magee was in Oklahoma City again, having resigned from the three papers and left the Valley for good. He explained that he was looking over his interests in Dual Parking Meter Co., would soon leave for New Mexico to write a book on Teapot Dome. At reports that he would revive the Oklahoma News (which Scripps-Howard let die last month), ex-Firebrand Carl Magee only shook his head...
...Some years ago Einstein visited California's Mt. Wilson Observatory, which houses under a vast rotatable dome the largest (100-inch) operating telescope in the world. Einstein was standing on a horizontal flange attached to the dome, when an astronomer flipped a switch and the dome began to turn, Einstein with it. The physicist did not realize that he was moving. Like most visitors subjected to the same experience, it seemed to him that he was stationary, that the whole central well of the observatory (solidly anchored through concrete pillars to bedrock) was turning in the opposite direction...