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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parterre boxes are not necessarily the ideal place from which to enjoy an opera. Those nearest the stage are signally bad?both for eye and ear. On the other hand, they are admirable localities from which to be seen; and their owners or lessees are as a rule extremely amiable about permitting the less exalted attendance to concentrate admiring gazes upon a galaxy of beauty, gems, gowns, furs...
...index is based upon a percentage scale, the average prices for the year 1913 being taken as 100. As between the seven groups above enumerated, dairy and garden products at 118 are nearest pre-War prices, while clothing at 187 is farthest above the pre-War price level...
...opposition" of the Earth and Mars, as their nearest approach to each other is termed in astronomical language, took place last week with a maximum excitement on the part of the public and a minimum excitement on the part of astronomers. These oppositions occur about every 26 months, but every 15 or 16 years there is an opposition when the two bodies ate nearer each other than usual, and about every hundred years or so there is an opposition at which the two planets are extremely near together-about 34,600,000 miles. This occasion belonged to the last group...
Those astronomers who specialize in planetary lore are enjoying a treat since Mars is now at its closest point to the earth. The actual date of nearest approach is Aug. 23. At this time the planet is only 35 million miles away as against a possible distance of about 63 million miles when the two planets are at opposite sides of their orbits. These approaches, such as the present, occur every 26 months or so, but there is a variation of some 2 million miles in the nearness depending on what part of their eliptical orbits the two planets...
Persons living off the route may utilize the service by mailing their letters, at no cost additional to the airplane postage, to the nearest of the following Central Post Offices: New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha, Cheyenne, Reno, Salt Lake City, San Francisco...