Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightest meteor in Canada's political sky, Ontario's blatant, spellbinding Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, amazed his Province last week and staggered his closest friends. "I will retire from public life," he announced. "There is no chance of my changing my mind." "It can't be so!" cried Ontario's Welfare Minister David Croll* and sprinted for the Premier's office. "I could write columns on the dismay and regret I feel!" gasped Ontario Attorney General Arthur Roebuck, the spearhead of Mitch's onslaughts upon "the power barons" and "the interests." "If there were...
...trace in Nature a continuous train of systems from the smallest known thing to the largest. Atoms with their electrons and nuclei are systems; so are molecules and molecular combinations such as crystals and colloids. Men, monkeys and chinch-bugs are colloidal aggregates. Then come meteoritic associations (comets, meteor streams), systems of satellites, stars, double and multiple stars, star clusters, galaxies, super-galaxies. Above all, the Universe of universes-the Metagalaxy. "That," says Harlow Shapley, "is as far as astronomy takes us. Beyond that is metaphysics, and whatever approach thereto the individual may prefer. Most astronomers are agnostics. Not atheists...
...Loring B. Andrews '25 will give the second lecture, "The Moon and the Stars in Navigation," on Friday, and this will be followed by another lecture by Dr. Stetson, who speaks Saturday of this week on "The Earth, Radio, and the Moon." "Metoors and Meteor Craters on Earth and Moon," by Fletcher Watson, assistant in Astronomy, is scheduled for Monday, February 11, and Dr. Carol A. Rieke will deliver the last, "Theories of the Origins of the Earth and Moon" on Tuesday, February...
...computations are made difficult by a wide divergence of opinion amongst the observers as to the actual appearance and flight of the blinding particle. Although the Observatory's Correspondents generally agreed that the flight was from north to south, a few believed that the meteor took other directions, notably northeast, and a "zig zag course". Estimates of the time the fireball was in the air yary from "not more than a second" to half a minute...
Where the spectators disagree most violently, however, is in the matter of the distance of the spectacle from their individual points of vantage. If all the reports were to be credited, the meteor, or parts of it would be found in Sebago Lake, Maine; in Pine Hills, Plymouth; in the mouth of Boston Harbor; two hundred yards from the shore at Scituate; and among other places, in the back yard of a gentleman on the south shore...