Word: herschel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed that it moved slightly in the same direction as the other planets. This was additional proof. They might have shouted out their find at once. But they deliberately saved the news until March 13. That date had a double significance in astronomy. On March 13, 1781, Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822) had, while sweeping the skies with a telescope, seen Uranus, first planet recognized in modern times.* And on March 13, 1855, Percival Lowell was born...
Newark, N. J., March 13--The construction of a laboratory for the study of practical applied hydraulics at the Harvard Engineering School was made possible by a $50,000 bequest in the will of Clemens Herschel '61, noted hydraulic engineer, who died on March 1. In the will probated here today the sum was set aside as a trust fund for Mrs. Herschel, to revert to Harvard on her death...
Another stupendous Canadian air stretch, and one which counts more to the Dominion, is the 1,800 miles from Calgary to Herschel Island. The East-West route parallels the Great Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railway systems. Into the far North goes no railroad except the new line from The Pas to Churchill on Hudson Bay. What the railroads did in developing the U. S. West, airplane companies are doing for Canada's North, a district almost as great as the whole...