Word: earthed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Working at the Astronomical Laboratory on Jarvis street with thousands of observations of latitude, Professor H. T. Stetson, with the assistance of Miss Margaret Olmstead, a graduate student at Radcliffe, has discovered a remarkable variation in the latitude of a place on the Earth's surface dependent on the rising and setting of the moon. This information was made known to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...slow progressive shift of the axis about which the earth rotates over a period of months and years has been known for a long time, explained Professor Stetson, but that there should exist such a diurnal effect depending upon the altitude of the moon in the sky was not known until the results of the present investigation were found. From the results of other investigations in progress at the Astronomical Laboratory last year, Professor Stetson is led to believe that the moon might cause a deviation in the direction of gravity as it passed over the meridian of the observer...
...Ross and Weddell Seas. There are mountain ranges. They may be extensions of the Andes; they may be related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole is light. Melting of South Polar ice may account for the axial wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local...
...stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
...Midnight. A signal, a shout. Then the sound of machinery drilling in the black earth, while lights gleamed on 92 steel derricks and cut the black sky. That was midnight, last week, when an agreement to curtail drilling in the rich Maud and Mission territory near Seminole, Okla., came...