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Observations will be made from three separate points, the Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Massachusetts, the Blue Hills Observatory in Milton, and Hopkinton, about 25 miles west of Boston, in order that the height, as well as the course of the meteors may be computed. The meteors will be recorded by the naked eye, the telescope, and camera, from 12 o'clock until dawn, but the weary hours of watching will be relieved by rest spells and refreshments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amateur Astronomers To Observe Meteoric Showers | 11/9/1933 | See Source »

...want to win the Boston A. A. Marathon-26 mi. over macadam and concrete roads from Hopkinton to a finish-line on Exeter Street-a good way is to finish eighth the year before. Jimmy Henigan was eighth in 1930, winner the next year; Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Marathon | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Observation was carried on at the three Harvard stations in this vicinity, as well as at their other stations in other sections of the country, belonging to the University. The reports from the latter stations have not yet been received. Reports have been tabulated, however, from the Oak Ridge, Hopkinton, and Belmont stations. At Oak Ridge nine cameras were installed, at Hopkinton five, while three cameras were used at the Belmont station...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE LEONID METEOR PHOTOS TURN OUT WELL | 11/25/1932 | See Source »

Last week's running of the Boston Marathon-26 mi. over New England hills from Tebeau's Farm at Hopkinton, Mass., to the clubhouse of the Boston Athletic Association-was the 36th. It was the 14th for 44-year-old Clarence De Mar, a school-teacher of Keene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Marathon | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...entry list was amazingly big - 228 - but the heat helped cut it to 189 actual starters on the 26-mi. run. They jogged along the road from Hopkinton to Wellesley - the halfway mark - and at Wellesley Square the college girls came out to wave to them and runners who still felt spry waved back. But the last half of the course was the real test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Marathon | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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