Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be quickly read, digested, or judged; the kind of approach which it demands is the kind of approach which Harvard men, above all, should have. The process of obtaining it will prepare the men of Harvard to preach the gospel of truth in the four corners of the earth. Phillip Francis Samuels...
...white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right leg. Said her daughter : "Mother is resting well and making fine progress." Bound for Doom, to attend his grand...
...50th anniversary of the founding of the Globe, Ed Howe responded to a speech of felicitation by Senator Arthur Capper: "When we're criticized we always have an excuse. Mine is that I'm an editor. Editors are hated more than any other men on earth...
...thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will convert the image into feeble electric current, which in turn will be amplified tremendously by three-electrode vacuum tubes. The result will be a photograph clear enough to bring remote stars into Earth's "back yard...
Milky Way. An estimate 600% higher than any previous census of stars in the Milky Way (the galaxy to which Earth belongs) was given by Drs. J. S. Plaskett and J. A. Pearce of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory at Victoria, B. C. Their total was 170 billion stars. The Milky Way is apparently rotating round a centre once every 220,000,000 years. From this centre they find the solar system 30,000 light years away...