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...core of blue brilliance seemed to rush toward him from a high altitude about 300 mi. away. The brilliance lasted eight or ten seconds, then broke into two clouds- one brilliant blue, the other yellow and flame-colored. The clouds soon seemed to merge. The luminescence faded after a half-hour. Groundlings at Albuquerque noted the gaseous glow for half an hour. Colorado Springs saw it for three times as long. The few groundlings who saw the meteor itself called its color blue-white...
...final warm-up for the Yale game on Saturday, the Varsity hockey sextet went through a practice match lasting a full half-hour with the Boston Bruins in the Garden yesterday afternoon...
Still hoping to mediate between Colombia and Peru, zealous Brazilian Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco labored day & night in Rio de Janeiro to keep war from breaking out at Leticia. Striding out of Minister de Mello Franco's office after a half-hour conference, Colombian Minister Dr. Carlos Uribe Echeverri was asked how much longer Colombia's fleet would wait before striking to recover Leticia...
...five kilometers a second. Five kilometers a second is the speed at which sound travels through solid iron and 15 times the speed at which sound travels through air. The Piccard rocket, when perfected, he figures should carry mail and passengers across the Atlantic in less than a half-hour...
First Race. To be as sure as they could of smooth water on the seven-mile oval course in Lake St. Clair, Mich., the committee named an unprecedented hour -6:30 a. m.-for the start. Rain that began before dawn caused a half-hour postponement. Thousands of boats had gathered in the dark, were anchored around the course. Along Grosse Point's Lake Shore Drive waited 200,000 spectators. At 6:55 a. m. when the five-minute gun sounded an inshore breeze was kicking up whitecaps-hard as riffles of concrete to a boat traveling more than...