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...woman scream. On the adjoining villa, occupied by young Robert Thompson Pell, press attaché of the U. S. delegation at the Disarmament Conference, servants ran about, wringing their hands, gesticulating toward a boat about 100 yd. offshore to which a woman was clinging while her screams became fainter. Composer Schelling raced into the water, swam to the boat, found Mrs. Pell in a bathing suit, unconscious, hanging head-down in the water. Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock. Composer Schelling disengaged Mrs. Pell's skewered leg, took her ashore. Revived, in care of doctors...
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...magnitude of a star is the measure of its brightness: the higher the number, the fainter the star. In the step of one magnitude the light will decrease in the ratio of 1:2.512. Five magnitudes corresponds to a decrease in intensity in ratio...
...evenings now an observer can distinguish the comet with his naked eye a little north of due west. Calculations which have been made of the comet's position for each day until April 10 indicate that it will be nearest the sun on March 28, growing gradually fainter after that date...
Recent investigations have shown that the light from the new planet is 10,000 times fainter than that of the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye. The Harvard astronomers are now trying to obtain more information concerning the planet by examining photographic plates that have been exposed in past years...