Word: meteor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest photograph of a meteor ever taken at Oak Ridge was obtained recently by one of the patrol cameras. The observatory is making an extensive study of this form of star, and has a collection of over 500 plates. Going at a rate of 40 miles a second, the meteor was brighter than Venus, an Observatory authority declared, casting a bright yellow light almost as strong as a flashlight held-at a distance of a few yards...
...times even Homer nods, and according to the newspaper accounts (if you will look them up) and my own recollection as an eyewitness close at hand, it was not the daughter but rather the wife of President Roosevelt of that day who christened the Kaiser's sailing yacht Meteor. I have a vivid memory of the grace and distinction of the lady who broke the bottle over the bow of the racing yacht in Nixon's boatyard on Staten Island. I feel sure that my memory is not at fault because I have always looked upon Edith Carow...
Newspaper accounts confirm Princess Alice's impression that it was she, not her mother, who christened the Meteor. In dark blue velvet, large picture hat, sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White Seal champagne (in silver net to catch glass splinters), swatted it cleanly against the ship's side and with a little silver hatchet chopped, in one chop, the heading cord. Prince Henry cabled to his imperial brother: "The yacht christened by the hand of Miss Roosevelt just launched...
Students volunteering from Astronomy 1 and the Harvard Observatory will spend Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights observing and recording the Loenid meteor showers which appear annually at this time. Weather hazards and the variable nature of meteors make the success of the expeditions problematical...
...Meteor Showers" will be the subject of a talk to be given at "Open Night" this evening at the Harvard Observatory by Fletcher Watson, Jr., instructor in Astronomy. Weather permitting, the guests will be allowed to observe the skys with the telescope. At the last meeting attention was focused upon Saturn, the moon, the Pleiades, and one of the brighter stars in the constellation of Taurus...