Word: halley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nice to see a beardless youth like Wilber playing it straight, playing it so close to Cambridge, and playing it so well. Wilber on the low notes, Hall on the high ones, and Archey's trombone make the Savoy's offering as good as anything going. Charles W. Halley...
...dance of death of Mayfair's Bright Young Things between the wars. Readers were somewhat taken aback by the ferocity of the ending: the unheroic hero stands in the total blackness of the next war's no-man's-land, waiting to toss his Huxdane-Halley bacterial bomb and infect the enemy with leprosy. Black Mischief was a grim guffaw at the efforts of an Oxford-trained black emperor to apply the notions of liberalism, progress, international uplift and birth control to a country as barbaric as Ethiopia. Scoop, the most rollicking of Waugh's novels...
...crossed northern skies at night, it would have been brighter than Halley's comet of 1910., and almost as bright as the comet 1910-A of the same year...
...history of the structure dates back to 1835 when the University purchased it from Richard Henry Dana, father of the noted author, and spurred by interest in Halley's comet, converted the structure into an observatory...
When he was just a kid, Roy Beebe decided that illness was unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the fourth grade and thus had no scientific prejudices. It was obvious to him that cosmic rays would clean static out of the human system and thus end all ills...