Word: herschel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months it had 2,000 subscribers, within a year 10,000. But not until 1835 did the Sun become famous. And then it was the moon that made it so. A cross-eyed reporter named Richard Adams Locke wrote an ingenious account of how Sir John Herschel. with his new telescope, had found manbats, beasts and weird vegetation on the moon. Locke's hoax shoved the Sim's circulation up to 19,000-largest of any daily in the world -and Ben Day could boast that New Yorkers read the Sun by day, studied the moon by night...
...custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual labor in connection with the trip. That was all right and according to custom. But when he attempted to kill Kobvello because he no longer needed her services, she rebelled and shot...
...article in the Boston Globe which purported to reveal the name of the next dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences-next most important position to that of the president of the University. This week the Harvard Board of Overseers meets to elect a successor to the late Clifford Herschel Moore, who died in Cambridge last month (TIME, Sept. 14). "Persons in close touch with the University," said the Globe, admitted that the Board would elect Kenneth Ballard Murdock, 36, Harvardman (1916), associate professor of English and master of Harvard's new Leverett House. Not only that: Professor Murdock...
Died. Dr. Clifford Herschel Moore, 65, Pope professor of Latin and dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences of Harvard University; after a brief illness; in Cambridge, Mass. Famed as a classics scholar, he was a leader of the "progressive" educational movement at Harvard...
...Columbus. Ind., Herschel Olmstead, 17, signaled a passing automobile for a ride. Sheriff Alonzo Fitch, on his way to arrest Herschel Olmstead for stealing a wristwatch, told him to climb in, took him to jail...