Word: meridian
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...Dawson of the La Plata Observatory in Argentina. A week after its discovery it was already the eighth brightest star in the sky, its brightness increasing day by day. In the U.S. the nova is visible at 5:30 to 6 a.m., war time, almost on the meridian and some 15° above the southern horizon when viewed from the latitude of Manhattan, Denver or Tokyo. It is higher in the southern States, invisible in Canada except for southern Ontario...
...cable sent to the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University and signed by President Conant reminded those at the English University of the program, which was heard in England at 11 o'clock Greenwich Meridian Time...
...13th day of Wake's hopeless, gallant fight. For the first time since the Japanese had struck on the morning of Dec. 8, the bright, pitiless Pacific sky was dulled. Over that tiny speck of sand on the 167th meridian east of Greenwich the clouds hung mercifully low. Those Marines of the original 378 who were still on their feet worked with tight-lipped earnestness against the next attack...
...Could do and are doing. . . . TIME shortwaves the MARCH OF TIME to Europe every Friday at 21 o'clock Greenwich Meridian Time over Station WGEO in Schenectady. Typical opening announcement...
Crime. In Meridian, Miss., a gunman demanded $10 of a shopkeeper, got $11, gave the shopkeeper $1 change. In Berkeley, Calif., a burglar who knew his current events stole a silk dress, a silk step-in combination, a silk chemise, five pairs of silk stockings, a pair of satin pajamas, and two pairs of nylon stockings. In Indianapolis, a burglar made off with 11?, left his cold chisel, jimmy and shirt...