Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most famed white dwarf, of which only three have definitely been spotted, is the companion of Sirius whose density is approximately half a ton to the cubic inch. *World telescope ranking: Observatory Diameter of Reflector Mt. Wilson........ 100 in. Dunlap (Toronto).....................................74 in. Dominion ...........................................72 in. Perkins (Delaware, Ohio).......................... 69 in. Harvard .....................................................61 in. Argentine National (Cordoba).........................60 in. Harvard (South Africa) ....................................60 in. Berlin-Babelsburg ........................................48½in. Melbourne..................................................... 48 in. †One light-year=approximately six trillion miles. Traveling 186,000 miles per second, light takes only eight minutes to reach Earth from...
...city Munich is almost 90% Catholic. Spiritually as well as physically the green-topped towers of Cardinal Faulhaber's cathedral dwarf Bishop Meisser's St. Matthew's. But Catholics in Bavaria fear for their freedom of worship no less deeply than Protestants. Next day more "Protestants" than the oldest Münchner could remember were on the streets...
...party found crude scrapers and knives made of limestone and volcanic rock. First evidence of an Old Stone Age culture in northern India, these implements were unearthed in a Pleistocene swamp deposit 500,000 years old. Other notable finds included fossils of land tortoises big enough to dwarf the Galapagos giants, and of four-horned ruminants bigger than rhinoceroses but related to giraffes...
...substance of "Come in at the Door: is woven around the effect, on the life of a sensitive and intelligent man, of witnessing as a child the horrible execution of a negro who in a fit of madness had beaten out the brains of a helpless dwarf. That the negro nurse of the child, Choster Hurry, is the mistress of his father and mother of his six dusky half-brothers and half-sisters, that the uncle with whom Chostor goes to live is tattooed all over his body and married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly...
...family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...