Word: magellanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voyage of Magellan". Professor Usher, Widener...
Ferdinand Magellan, first world circumnavigator, required three years (1519?22) for his sailing trip. Author Jules Verne's fictitious "Phileas Fogg" required 80 days; Nellie Bly, New York World reporter, 72 days (1889); U. S. Army planes, 175 days, of which 15 were actual flying days (1924); John Henry Mears and C. B. D. Collyer, record holders, 23 days (1928). The Graf Zeppelin expected to fly twelve or 14 days, with four-day stops for fueling at Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles?in all, a few days more than three weeks. The Mears-Collyer dash cost them...
...Voyage of Magellan", Professor Usher, Widener...
...analysis of the spectra of southern nebulae, the determination of the velocities of bright stars, the establishment of standard series of magnitudes, the investigations of the light changes of faint variable stars, and the general analysis of the structure and content of the two star clouds of Magellan...
...that most amused me was the one called "Africa a Tale of the Rhinoceros" or perhaps it was a toss up between it and a burlesque of the Burton Holmes Lectures that so thrilled the CRIMSON playgoer not long age. I am going to have the drawing "After You, Magellan framed and hung in my office. We will not go into more detail, but the reader turning from page to page will be delighted with the excellence of the material as well as the care that has been shown in the cypos raphy. I who understand those things...