Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After that his troubles were over. When blind Astronomer Edwin Brant Frost retired in 1932, Struve succeeded him as Yerkes' director. His valuable and multifarious work there includes discovery of the biggest star known to man-an almost transparent body four billion miles across which like a monstrous ghost accompanies the well-known star Epsilon Aurigae (TIME...
...Edwin Holt Hughes (North), slight Bishop John Monroe Moore (South), Dr. James H. Straughn (Methodist Protestant)-said simultaneously: "This we do reverently in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." The unison would have been perfect except that Bishop Moore said "Holy Ghost...
...student agency and Hun each tutor about 175 annually, and the only report of unethical practices was that of a ghost writer in New York who wrote some these last year. A vigorous campaign by the Princetonian combined with the honor system stamped this illegality...
...ruts and dust; in some places the Oregon Trail was 20 miles wide. But US 30, following the long curves on the north bank of the Platte River across Nebraska, climbing on its oiled roadbed to cross the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming, swinging north past the ghost towns and hot springs of Idaho, most nearly follows the route of the greatest mass migration in U. S. history: almost every mile of its 2,110 covers traces of the covered wagons...
...play--the Lord Chamberlain is exasperatingly hasty and foolish. Humor, too, enters into Mr. Graham's skillful portrayal, especially when the utmost is wrung from his interview (II-II) with the smooth, villainous King (Henry Edwards) and the sensual, light-witted Queen (Mady Christians). Only from the ghost, who--in spite of the effective lighting--falls between abstract ghostliness and the human wisdom and tenderness which Shakespeare intended, could more be asked. All in all, Maurice Evans' "Hamlet" is so good that, unanimously, the opening night audience agreed with his gracious acknowledgment of their prolonged applause: "I like to think...