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Kaname Nakamura of the Kyoto observatory staff, when his agitation subsided, was able to trace a gross error. A reporter had misread the Japanese picture-word which described the new heavenly body. The symbol for ten, or ju, is approximately that of the mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME...
...regret deeply that the Transcript misread your Editorial, "Mark of the Beast," on March 21, and trust that "Squirrel Cage", in this morning's paper, has been sufficient to appease the Crimson's trustees...
Future. No lover of anticlimax, no man to misread the public mind twice, Alfred Emanuel Smith announced he was through with politics, for good. Friends offered mansions for him to rest in. Until January 1 he has his gubernatorial mansion at Albany. Said a colyumist, referring with admiration to the Smith campaign: "I'd rather be Smith than President...
...Hockey games between the Boston Bruins and the Ottawa Senators, in your SPORTS column, TIME, April 25, that sharp steel cut deep in glaring ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck and that the games were marked with aggressiveness, roughness on both sides. If I have misread your article, please inform...
...settled down for the hard winter of 1923-24. An able newspaperman, Rossman put in his diary, and has here expanded, facts and fresh impressions which an habitue of the North might have omitted as commonplace: that an Alaskan city was called Nome when, in 1849, an Admiralty draftsman misread the notation "Name?"; that...