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...developments recorded at the Peruvian station pushed Pickering into the limelight as one of the top astronomers in the world. A newspaper of the day stated that. "His discoveries will add another laurel to his great institution...
Hall said he followed the Turnpike on his way to New York, when about 3:15 p.m. showers and fog began to make flying difficult. The two-seater Cessna plane was approaching the rise two miles before the Laurel Hill Tunnel (near Somerset), but the hill, surrounding mountains, and low clouds prevented Hall from climbing or turning around...
...England, oldtime Cinema Comics Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, doing a personal appearance at a Newcastle theater, looked down their noses at the modern generation: "Present-day comedians, particularly those in America, gain laughs at the expense of someone else's discomfort. Insult gags are a crudity we avoid...
...linked in mine; they must make room for us, not we for them." Yet in 1812 the man who had liberated music from its classical bounds, and raised composers to something more than servants of a court, wrote to a friend, "Do not rob Handel, Haydn, Mozart of their laurel wreaths: they deserve them; I have not yet earned mine...
...Despite his wartime record of collaboration with the Japs, Jose Laurel's Nacionalista party won sweeping victories in democratic elections...