Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chimed the Johannesburg Star: "If Prime Minister Chamberlain's peace efforts fail the British people all over the globe will recognize and respond to the call to duty...
Guest on the Vitalis radio program in Manhattan night of last week's hurricane was globe-circling Sailor Dwight Long (TIME, Sept. 19). Few minutes before his turn at the microphone came he learned that his 32-foot ketch Idle Hour had slipped her mooring and was being whipped out into Long Island Sound. Dwight Long did his radio stint, then ventured to the WJZ audience an anxious SOS: ". . . All I own in the world is aboard the Idle Hour. . . ." Next day they found her, mistress of 35,000 miles of angry oceans, a splintery pile on Long Island...
...nitrogen, the torpedo-shaped capsule will, according to Grover Whalen, remain until our progeny's progeny dig it up. They are to find out about it by straying across one of many Books of Records of the capsule which will be mailed next week to libraries all over the globe. There has been no comment as yet from New Haven...
...Stockholm, Sweden, from August 3 to 10, papers were delivered by three men from Harvard. Dr. Shapley spoke on "The Distribution of Galaxies and the Absorption of Light in space." He confirmed previous indications that our own discshaped galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by an immense, low-density globe of scattered stars...
...Harvard Observations show that this Milky Way "globe" has a diameter of about 80,000 light years (a light year is the distance light travels in a year at the rate of 186,000 miles a second). The diameter of the flat disc of the Milky Way in which nearly all the stars of the system are located, is of the order of 100,000 light years...