Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light from the sun which reaches Earth and is reflected back to the moon. By spectroscopic analysis of this "earthshine" and by inferring additional details from the known phenomena of optics, astronomers can form a plausible idea of how Earth looks from other planets. Last week Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking and spreading with the change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great...
Morris De Camp Crawford '37, of Nyack, New York, and John Melvin Hartwell, Jr. '36, of Belmont, have been elected to the Eliot House Committee...
Joseph Nee had his ups and downs alternately with Melvin Vals before he was floored for a technical knockout by the latter after one minute and 55 seconds of the first round. Other winners for Harvard were Paul Cunningham, 115 pounds, who defeated Allen Stevens; Henry Sherlock, 125 pounds, winner over Norman Higgins by a technical knockout after one minute, 58 seconds of the second round; and Arthur Oakes, 155 pounds, who beat Ahern. Arthur Snell lost to Waldo Stewart in the 135-pound division
...throwing off two shells of tremendously hot gas at 1,000,000 m.p.h. By last week it had jumped 13 magnitudes to the first, acquired a name, Nova Herculis 1934. Its radiation had increased 200,000 times; it was among the twelve brightest stars in the sky. Directors Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Ob servatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Harlow Shapley of Harvard Observatory obtained remarkable spectra, said the star might be the most important stellar outburst ever witnessed...
Coach Carr looks to three lettermen, Charles S. Kelley, III '36, Edward Metley, Jr. '36, and Philo F. Willetts '36, to fill the shoes of the veteran forward nucleus composed of Captain Stork, Delavane C. Close and Melvin G. Grover, which has functioned to perfection in the contests of the past three years. In the goal there will be another difficult problem created by the graduation of Jonathan S. England...