Word: meudon
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...face of lovely Paris is pocked with gun emplacements, searchlight batteries, and trenches. Recently a demonstration of air defenses was held in the ditched and tunneled Esplanade des Invalides outside Napoleon's tomb. There are concrete gun platforms on the wooded Meudon and St. Cloud hills where Americans have their villas and restaurants serve cool drinks to heat-weary Parisians. On Mont Valérien, westward across the Seine from the Bois de Boulogne, is an impressive layout of long-barreled guns and searchlights with independent generators. Large railroad station signs, a give-away to low-flying raiders, have...
...celebrating some ancient solar anniversary, the sun appeared to be setting off fireworks last week. Astronomer Lucien d'Azambuja of the Paris Observatory at Meudon peered at solar photographs made with his powerful spectrohelioscope, found flaring "prominences'" shooting out 90,000 to 180,000 miles from the surface. Astronomer d'Azambuja declared he had not observed such intense solar activity for 20 years...
...stellar distances. Beginning in 1903, Frank Schlesinger developed such effective photographic methods of parallax measurement that now some 2,000 have been accurately determined. Elected president of the next Congress, to be held in 1938 at Stockholm, was Ernest Esclangon, 59, director of the observatories at Paris and Meudon and Professor of Astronomy at University of Paris...
...column are: Dr. William Duncan MacMillan of University of Chicago, who maintains that X's path is hyperbolic, not elliptical; Professor H. E. Wood, astronomer for the South African Union, who gives X a size 1/30th that of Earth; Fernand Baldet, associate astronomer at the government observatory at Meudon, France; Professor Harold Lee Alden of Yale's South African Station, who sides with Dr. Brown, claims X is too small to influence Uranus; Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Director of Yale Observatory; Dr. Armin Otto Leuschner, astronomy professor at University of California. Chief among X supporters is Dr. Vesto Melvin...
...public expense. His case was so desperate that he asked to be permitted to have a room in the museum-the Hotel Biron, formerly his own studio. The official in charge of the museum refused. Other officials and friends promised coal but never sent it, though his situation at Meudon, ill, and freezing to death, was apparently well known to all of them...