Word: halfway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus Harlow Shapley, now about halfway along in his detailed census of the all-embracing Universe, was able to trace in Nature a continuous train of systems from the smallest known thing to the largest. Atoms with their electrons and nuclei are systems; so are molecules and molecular combinations such as crystals and colloids. Men, monkeys and chinch-bugs are colloidal aggregates. Then come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes...
...March the two Negroes' feet were puffy, greyish-purplish clumps of gangrenous flesh and they both would now have been stone dead if a Raleigh surgeon had not amputated their four limbs halfway to the knees. In the Charlotte court house last week these stumps were Exhibits A, B, C and D in the State's case of criminal cruelty against Captain H. C. Little of the convict camp, three of his guards and Dr. C. S. McLaughlin, camp physician...
...biggest at a British Open Golf Championship in years, so busy at Muirfield last week that no one paid much attention to a short, stoutish man named Alfred Perry, who kept himself busy winning the tournament. After a brilliant 69 in the first round, a creditable 144 at the halfway point, Perry equalled the Muirfield course record of 67 made by Walter Hagen in winning the Open of 1929. A 75 would have won for Perry after that. Instead, after just missing the putt that would have given him an all-time Open...
...plagued the whole industry since the New Deal. He sold nearly 300,000 more Fords last year than the year before but his profits amounted to only 1% on his capital. This year Henry Ford plans to make 1,000,000 cars "or better," has long since passed the halfway mark...
Last week, accompanied by a wireless operator, Sir Charles and "Bill" set out from Sydney in the famed old Southern Cross to fly the stormy Tasman Sea to Wellington, N. Z. Halfway across, the starboard propeller broke off, part of a motor fell into the sea. With the other two motors sputtering, the ship lost altitude rapidly. Sir Charles threw 14,000 lb. of freight overboard, then 34,000 pieces of Jubilee mail. When the Southern Cross continued falling, Sir Charles sent out an SOS, added: "Port motor gone now. . . . Afraid...