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...light-year is the distance that light, traveling at 186,000 m.p.s., covers in one year-5,865,696,000,000 miles. *Dr. Vesto Slipher of Lowell Observatory measured, before Hubble, the slower speeds of nearer nebulae. *Hubble would be the first to deny that all the credit for the expanding universe theory is his. Many others, from Harvard's Harlow Shapley to Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre, have contributed. *One cause for coolness: a studio, planning a movie about the stars, hired a Mount Wilson astronomer as consultant. He was happy with his easy $200 a month...
Solution of the $50,000 Harvard Cooperative Society robbery appeared one step nearer yesterday as Nicholas Maverides was arraigned in Middle sex Superior Court on a charge of armed robbery. He was held in $120,000 bail pending trial of the case...
...upper air, and develop advanced radar storm detectors. The bureau also needed an electronic computer that would allow its statisticians to give more time to careful analyses of weather data. With such new knowledge and mechanical aids, Reichelderfer felt certain that the bureau's predictions would be nearer the mark...
...that you may so live together in this life that in the world to come you may have everlasting life. The ever-living Christ is here to bless you. And He will always be near to help and guide you. His perfect love will deepen your love. The nearer you keep to Him the nearer you will be to one another...
...Hall. There I was warned that Communist shock troops were on their way over. We waited, and soon heard the rumble of the mob outside. Then, one by one, we heard the doors of the City Hall crash open as fiendish howls of 'Death to Carlini' grew nearer...