Word: globe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tropic climes, on opposite sides of the twirling globe, shrewd men watched anxiously, last week, the struggle of Great Britain to maintain her world monopolistic grip on rubber...
...spring soccer season was officially opened last night with a meeting in the Living Room of the Varsity Club at which George Collins, soccer editor of the Boston Globe and manager of the Olympic soccer team four years ago, was the main speaker...
George Collins, soccer editor of the "Boston Globe" and manager of the Olympic soccer team of four years ago, will be the guest of the team and the principal speaker of the evening. Coach Jack Kershaw and Captain-elect A. M. Stollmeyer '30 will also address the meeting...
Four hundred years ago Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, desired silversmiths to make him a globe on which should be represented, "with exactitude," the constellations of the stars. Silversmiths made the "undignified fanatic" his globe. It was about twelve inches in diameter; its surface was carved with those bizarre and threatening shapes with which the ancients first identified the golden processionals of the sky. No celestial beast was missing; goat, unicorn, fish, lion, hurrying crab crowds its shining convexity. After the death of the astronomer, his globe became famous in the country that had laughed at its inventor. A succession...
Faust, like the necromancers of his day, gazes into a crystal globe, in which the figure of Marguerite appears, just as it might be conjured up by Faust's own fancy. The philosopher declares for pleasure at any price. The stage is darkened for a moment, and there appear seated at a table the youthful Faust and the youthful Mephistopheles, the latter a leader in all the conscienceless episodes of the story to follow. Thus it is made reasonable to regard what happens as a vision to be entertained by a scholar himself. By these means the attempt is made...