Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leland E. Cunningham, the Observatory astronomer who discovered the comet, has countered with the statement that if has lived up to expectations as far as astronomers are concerned...
...Lucky Baldwin, James B. Haggin and Leland Stanford-California was second only to Kentucky in the business of breeding horses. Every summer, Breeder Haggin used to ship 300 thoroughbreds to the Saratoga yearling sales. When public indignation against gambling outlawed racing in California, its stud farms went to rack & ruin. With racing's revival in 1935, thoroughbred breeding became more than an industry, it became a mania...
Discovered on photographic plates last September by Leland Cunningham of Harvard Observatory, the comet last week was about 100,000,000 miles from earth, about the same distance from the sun. On Jan. 10 it comes closest to earth (54,000,000 miles), on Jan. 16 closest to the sun (33,000,000 miles). By then, on account of the sun's dazzling proximity, the show will be over...
Harvard's is the only observatory conducting an extensive study of Comet Cunningham, which was discovered here by Leland E. Cunningham this fall. Cunningham himself is organizing the observation program in collaboration with Fletcher Watson, executive secretary of the Observatory...
From Athens last week Newsman Leland Stowe (Chicago Daily News) cabled his opinion that Ralph Waldo Barnes, crack war correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, deserved a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 1940. Eleven years before, when Stowe was head of the Herald Tribune's Paris bureau, he himself had won a Pulitzer Prize with the aid of young Reporter Barnes, who had managed to get a beat-the full text of the Young Plan-from a delegate to the Reparations Conference in Paris. But Stowe's suggestion was no mere logrolling...