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...cloudbursts, first from the east, then from the west, and some claim that it rained up as well as down. Dawn came, at long last, with a rising sun, a clear sky, and the fatigue trousers of Robert V. Smith, Yale '38, fluttering wildly in the breeze from the flagstaff on the old fort...
...Steel Works at Essen, the second in the exhibition hall at Cologne. Every German had his stage directions. At 3:45 o'clock on the afternoon of the Essen speech radios all over Germany echoed the shrill yip of Minister Goebbels: "RAISE FLAGS!" On that instant from every flagstaff in Germany and from the windows of thousands of little cottages unrolled the swastika banner. Then followed the voice of Dr. Goebbels, solemn as a priest: "Adolf Hitler is Germany...
Lowell founded an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, a region admirably suited for the examination of the heavens, and equipped it with a 24-inch telescope, of which the main purpose was to carry on the investigation of Mars. Here a careful study of the "canals" began. As a result, by 1908. five hundred and seventy-five such markings had been mapped...
...canals ran in a definitely ordered scheme, sometimes in pairs, connecting the old sea floors, that seemed to contain vegetation, with one another. At Flagstaff, the most favorably situated point of observation, these canals are seen clearly as fine, sharp lines. Elsewhere, they are blurred, diffuse, and fewer are visible...
...which reaches Earth and is reflected back to the moon. By spectroscopic analysis of this "earthshine" and by inferring additional details from the known phenomena of optics, astronomers can form a plausible idea of how Earth looks from other planets. Last week Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking and spreading with the change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great blue-black patches which...