Word: giante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explosive shell have come mainly from Mount Wilson Observatory's brilliant Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. Beginning in 1928, Hubble and his coworker, Milton LaSalle Humason, showed that the light from the most distant nebulae (clouds of stars) which he could photograph in Mount Wilson's giant telescope was shifted far toward the red end of the spectrum. Such a redshift is observed in the light of a star known to be retreating from Earth, so it was assumed that the distant nebulae were retreating in all directions. On these observations, and on the theoretical expanding universes formulated...
...great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foos" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a made chase ensues, and it is this that fills the body of the picture. Much comedy is afforded by a dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...
...were a giant panda, an entirely different animal, she had a scientific prize of first magnitude...
Last week came longer dispatches from Shanghai. The creature was definitely a giant panda, a six-week-old female 16 inches long, weighing 4 Ib. 12 oz. To capture it, Mrs. Harkness had spent $20.000. She hoped to sell it to a U. S. zoo for $15,000. But just as she was about to take it aboard the U. S.-bound Empress of Russia, Chinese customs officials seized it on the grounds that she had obtained no export permit. In near-hysteria Mrs. Harkness spent the night in the Shanghai customs house, nursing her precious cub from a bottle...
About the size of a black bear, weighing 200 to 300 Ib., the giant panda has long, creamy fur, black forelegs and shoulders, black ears, black circles around its eyes, cat-like feet. It eats bamboo shoots. Natives call it beishung (white bear) and scientists call it Ailuropus melanoleucus. So scarce is it that when the Roosevelts shot theirs, inhabitants of the nearest village, 25 miles distant, had never seen or heard of such a creature...