Word: marse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Different countries, different scenes. At the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., a badger-like Belgian, Professor George Van Biesbroeck, squatted in his dusky cavern, mapping what he could see, through Earth's shaking atmosphere, of the 1926 Martian geography. He disregarded the two little moons that circle Mars...
Like sentient creatures, the Earth has its eyes in it upper† part, eyes which, like an owl's see best by night: telescopes. That is why the press contained more news of Mars last week than it did two and one half years ago when Mars, though eight...
These minor planets vary in size from a few miles in diameter to 200 miles, and revolve around the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They are so small that they are mostly discovered photographically. Dr. Metcalf was one of the most successful astronomers in so discovering these...
Nearer to men than it had come for two years, but seven million miles less near than it had come two years ago, came Mars. Faintly reddish in tinge, it rose to the zenith, a bright disc 76 times smaller (optically) than Earth's full moon, giving U. S...
Doubling around a wisp of fence, into the stretch at Belmont came a flying clot of horses. People in the Grand Stand scrambed up on the backs of the ramped benches; nonchalance deserted the idlers in front of the Turf Club; they shouted a name that shook itself out like...