Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swords and arrows are the weapons of the Santals, simple hill folk in upper Bengal. Last week one of their chiefs suddenly decided that he was St. Gandhi. Shouting, "I am the Mahatma! I am Gandhi himself!" he led his tribe to Malda where they seized a local mosque...
University of Wisconsin jacks & jills like to go up Madison's Observatory Hill at night. So does sandy-haired 54-year-old Dr. Joel Stebbins, the University's astronomer. Campus wiseheads chuckle over the saying that "many a co-ed has learned about life while Joel learned about the stars." They chuckle too at the way to amuse his friends, Dr. Stebbins vacillates between full Vandyke and Hitler mustache. A gourmet, he counts the table second only to the observatory. He would be an A-1 golfer if he did not let astronomy and eating interfere...
...Stebbins began the work on Madison s hill. Last year he got a leave of absence, went out to California's Mt Wilson. To Mt. Wilson's 100-in. reflector he attached a photo-electric cell (which translates faint light into a current of electricity) and continued his studies of the brightness and color of stars. At Ann Arbor Mich, last month he was ready to tell the National Academy of Sciences that estimates of star distances from the earth must be revised from 10% to 200%. Other astronomers hailed his announcement as confirmation of their own researches...
Substitutes on the team are as follows: Harvard: Hallowell, r.w.; McDonell, c.; Duffey, l.w.; Prouty, r.d.; Roberts, ld.; Waldinger, g. Belmont Hill: Carstein, l.w.; Holcombe, c.; Eaton, r.w.; Brooks, l.d.; Lawrence, r.d.; Devakul...