Word: gerard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gerard P. Kuiper's closeup of Pluto with the 200-in. Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain, which revealed the planet to be 3,550 miles in diameter (a previous estimate: about twice this size) and the second smallest planet in the solar system (TIME, June...
...Duke of Bristol, it seems, is about to lose his ancestral home. His brother Gerard, played by Ralph Michael, invites the family to work on his farm, but they recoil from the idea in horror. Providence appears in the form of the American millionairess, played by Beatrice Pearson. After a great deal of to-do she and Gerard get together, as you might know they would. The play is short on action and long on talk, a great deal of which takes place inside a gloomy drawing-room set by Edward Gilbert. Most of the time the 14 characters just...
...Gerard probably has the most indestructible virtue of any fictional character since Joseph Andrews. Locked in a small room at night with his ladylove, Gerard displays an attitude that is beyond belief, especially in view of the physical attractions Miss Pearson offers. Michael plays his part staunchly and with great stamina. Miss Pearson doesn't come off quite so well, but one finds it easy to excuse her for not being as good an actress as she might be. Melville Cooper is properly cynical as a Lord with no money and even less "family pride...
...only as a point of light like a star, have had to estimate its size by calculating the apparent effect of its gravitation upon the motion of Neptune. Measured in this indirect way, Pluto was thought by some to be almost as big as the earth. Last week Astronomer Gerard P. Kuiper of Yerkes Observatory, having measured Pluto's diameter with the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain, announced that those estimates were probably wrong...
Elementary. In Amesdale, Ont., Constable Eckvert studied the evidence of burglary at Ames's General Store, took a cast of human teeth marks in a piece of Canadian Cheddar cheese, tracked down and got a confession from Gourmet Gerard Chouinard...