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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Main battery: Colorado, eight 16-inch guns; Mutzu, eight 16-inch guns; Hood, eight 15-inch guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Colorado III | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...Wilson Observatory expedition, of the Carnegie Institute, of Pasadena, Cal., headed by Dr. Walter S. Adams, will observe the eclipse from two stations besides the main observatory, including one at Point Lonia, near San Diego. About 98.5% of the sun's disk will be covered at Mt. Wilson, and observations will be made there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Shadow | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

...Lick Observatory, under its Director, Dr. W. W. Campbell, will observe the eclipse from the main observatory and from a station at Ensenada, Lower California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Shadow | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Like "Babbitt" and "Main Street," " Merton " has imbedded itself in the American vocabulary. He is the satiric symbol for youth with the celluloid complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Sep. 3, 1923 | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Alfred E. Zimmern, potent Welsh educator and economist, recently at Cornell, wrote an article for the New York Evening Post. His main criticisms of American colleges, as compared with English, are summarized above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critique | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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