Word: lunar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gradually closer to Earth, must eventually be broken up by Earth's gravitation. One of Jupiter's little satellites, for example, is so close to that big planet's gravitational "danger zone" that it is egg-shaped. Sir James made it clear last week that the lunar approach will be no harmless display for earthlings...
...take cognizance of possible contributing causes of quakes, such as the tidal pulls on Earth of heavenly bodies. Herbert Janvrin Browne, a heterodox Washington long-range weather forecaster, thinks the high frequency of quakes this year may be related to the fact that 1935 will have seven lunar and solar eclipses, the maximum possible number...
Opening a series of lectures on the earth and the moon, Dr. H. T. Stetson gave a clear explanation of lunar tides, both in the ocean and in the atmosphere itself, in a lecture given at the Harvard Observatory last evening...
Normative Survey- For the first half of the investigation (Volume I), 107 infants were enlisted. They were observed from the age of four weeks onward at regular intervals of one lunar month. None of the babies was born prematurely and all were sound in mind and body. The parents, all U. S.-born and mostly of North European stock, were plain, solid, intelligent people, neither rich nor poor...
...faculty suffered only one loss from death during the summer months, that of Dr. Willard James Fisher '66, Lecturer at the Harvard Observatory and international authority on lunar eclipses. He died suddenly from a heart attack on September 3 at his home, 49 Langdon Street, Cambridge...