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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Blizzard. The cold in the west was not the bright, dry cold that westerners pretend to enjoy so much. It snowed & snowed & snowed. Bitter cold and roaring wind turned the snowstorms into blizzards. The great blizzard of early January was the worst that ever hit the high-plains states. In South Dakota the Black Hills region got 50 inches of snow; Deadwood got 77 inches. Total snowfall for January in western Nebraska averaged 70 inches...
...minute exposure, the Palomar telescope recorded all that had ever been caught at Mt. Wilson. As the exposures were lengthened, fainter and more distant objects were found in constantly increasing numbers. An exposure of one hour brought in the "background," the shine of the night sky, and thus represented the maximum power of the telescope. To judge by the number of faint nebulae on it, this photograph reached one billion light-years (6 billion trillion miles) into space-twice as far as man had ever looked before. Said Hubble: "The tests confirm our previous conclusion that the Hale telescope...
...faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching wealthy Laurie (Peter Lawford). Little Beth once more wastes away, bravely and wistfully, to an early death...
Test Case. In Green Bay, Wis., Municipal Judge Donald W. Gleason asked a man charged with grand larceny whether he wanted a lawyer, got a straight answer: "I don't know, Judge. This is the first time I ever got caught...
Later, Coach Rene Peroy denounced the officiating as "the worst I have ever seen." The judges, who looked like German spies from a World War I movie were the same ones who refereed last year's hotly argued Yale game...