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Lowell founded an observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, a region admirably suited for the examination of the heavens, and equipped it with a 24-inch telescope, of which the main purpose was to carry on the investigation of Mars. Here a careful study of the "canals" began. As a result, by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTRONOMERS PROVE MARS IS UNINHABITED | 10/31/1935 | See Source »

"No one can forecast yet anything like what lines the campaign will take. . . . There'll be less spellbinding, less soap-box stuff. . . . All the old issues have fallen down. Prohibition is out of the way, thank heavens. Tariff has simmered down to a compromise. . . . States' rights-the Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fireworks & Fourth | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

For all the warmth they elicited, the cheerleaders might just as well have slapped the fair back of Emily Post. Their violent antics were silently watched with grins of amused condescension. A slight interest was taken in the aerial performances, not of the hurtling pigskin, but of the paper airplanes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATURDAY | 10/8/1935 | See Source »

The Orange Free State has been the location of the southern hemisphere station of the University Observatory since 1927, previous to which time the observatory "down underneath" was situated in Peru. Photographs of the southern sky are regularly sent here to supplement those taken of the northern heavens at the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Several Activities In Numerous Fields Carries University Into Foreign Lands | 9/20/1935 | See Source »

Wicked Pennsylvania flood waters drowned a dozen persons last week. In New York harassed Governor Herbert H. Lehman dashed about inspecting the $25,000,000 wreckage left by an upstate flood that had taken 42 lives. And in China the colossal Yangtze and Hwangho Rivers cut loose with a deluge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Water Woe | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

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