Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, hero or marplot* is conspicuous as the only Senator who, already famed, has increased his fame during the 69th Congress. He, a sizzling meteor among orators, a bastinado of the present trend of U. S. politics, has seized the role of Senator inquisitor, which Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana and the late LaFollette of Wisconsin once held. Everyone knows how Senator Reed revealed several millions in certified slush in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, May 31, et seq.) ; how he dragged the Anti-Saloon League into the investigations and gave it its first important...
Last week, bowling along in its perennial path through the heavens, the Earth fell in with some company that it always enjoys on or about Aug. 10-a shower of meteors from the constellation Perseus, probably remnants of "Tuttle's Comet of 1862," now disintegrated. Some of the shrewd little two-legged organisms that scurry hither and thither on the Earth's surface had known of the event in advance and were watching what they call their "northwest" skies to see the meteors come whizzing into terrestrial atmosphere. The latter, being thicker than interstellar ether, caused the hurtling...
...Willard J. Fisher will lecture on "Meteor and Fireball Research at the Harvard Observatory, 1925-26" at the Astronomical Colloquium which will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Building A at the Harvard College Observatory...
...What was the apparent altitude of the meteor when first seen? When last seen? This does not ask for the altitude in feet, but for an estimate of the angular altitude, as such a fraction of the distance from the horizon to the zenith, or in degrees...
...many seconds would you say that the meteor was visible...