Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interpretation of the origin of the asteroids, those thousands of tiny bodies that circulate around the sun in orbits between those of Jupiter and Mars, leaves much to be desired. Are they fragments of one or more small planets broken up by collision, or are they the wreckage of a planet that came too near to the gigantic Jupiter? Persistent observation and the development of mathematical theories should in time solve this mystery...
...near approach of two stars is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. It is calculated to occur in our galactic system not oftener than once in a thousand million years. The actual collision of two stars would be a much more uncommon occurrence. Even so, however, since the astronomer measures time in terms of ten millions of millions of years, it is probable that many planetary systems exist throughout our galaxy and the innumerable other galaxies that are strewn throughout space...
...planetary mystery much nearer home is the problem of the irregularities of the rotation of the earth--a phenomenon discovered through studies of the motion of the moon. For some years we have been familiar with the fact that the earth's rotation is slowing down, that the day is lengthening, and that the moon is receeding; we have learned that after an interval of some fifty thousand million years the month and the day will be the same length again, as they were at the time the earth-moon system was formed. That equality of month...
...Kreutzberg is the better technician--there were few who denied that. His gestures have a definiteness, a clarity, that Miss Georgi's lacked. But inspired as they are in much the same way by the same sort of thing, they make an ideal pair, and Miss Georgi makes up in a fiery temperament what she lacks in technique...
...prominent part to play in the state-wide celebrations which take place next year. The Law School will have an important position, as the observance of the tercentenary emphasizes the introduction of self-government and civil liberties into the future United States. The College, which has contributed so much to the intellectual and political progress of the state and the nation, cannot fall to be one of the chief sources of interest to the hundreds of thousands who are expected to visit the state during the coming summer...