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...Willard J. Fisher of the Harvard Observatory has issued a questionnaire asking for reports from observers of the meteor seen Sunday morning in the vicinity of Boston...
...Wellington, N. Z., Prof. A. C. Gifford of the Hector Observatory is something of a cat. The lunar mice, he suggested last week, are meteors. Others have believed that the multitude of craters on the moon's surface are the chilly orifices of extinct volcanoes, mementoes of the aeons just after the moon, a molten fragment, was flung off from the earth's mass, arrested in the heavens by the pull of terrestrial gravity and started in its perpetual monthly swing. Prof. Gifford's contention is that, since the moon has no appreciable enveloping atmosphere, a meteor...
There will be brief outlines of "Progress on Harvard Observatory Researches" at 8 o'clock tonight in the Observatory. Miss Annie J. Cannon will treat the "Extension of the Henry Draper Catalogue": Dr. Willard J. Fisher, "Meteor Photographs": Miss Mary Howe, "Balmer Series in Stellar Spectra...
...smooth yellow oval, spun lazily across the continent, it shone down on another meteor, one Friedman, who played for Michigan against Wisconsin. Now Meteor Friedman, in turn, thinking of flashing, dazzling "Red" Grange who had torn through his team the week before, had determined that he himself would flash, dazzle. Wherefore, he scored one touchdown himself and threw passes that made possible the two more. The score: Michigan 21, Wisconsin...
...employ of the New Haven Wire Mill. That was in 1863. Twenty-five years later he transferred his services to the Pittsburgh Wire Co., became superintendent of the factory. From then on he shot ahead with the rapidity and brilliance of a meteor. In 1911 he became President of the U. S. Steel Corporation- probably the greatest executive position in the indusrial world. His success is no doubt due to his thorough training as a workman. At the age of 61 he is still an ardent yachtsman and lover of outdoor life...