Word: novae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left last spring. Determined to intercept them, Oscar and fellow zealots were getting up in the middle of the night and tramping 100 miles of Vineyard beaches in the island's 14th annual Striped Bass Derby, which has drawn 1,200 fishermen from as far as California and Nova Scotia...
...space gas between star-watching and undersea-photography expeditions to the far ends of the earth. He sounds thoroughly convincing when he writes, at a moment of high dramatic intensity (a star is blowing up): "Those last exposures did it! ... They show the gaseous shell expanding round the nova. And the speed agrees with your Doppler shifts." His characters may seem as standard as those in any war film (his monsters, though, are quite human), but most science-fiction writers proceed on the assumption, probably correct, that one man's neurosis, however interesting, is not very significant when...
Died. Michael Moses Coady, 77, Roman Catholic priest-director of the extension department of Nova Scotia...
Francis Xavier University, who led the Antigonish Movement, a combination of adult education and practical economics, among impoverished farmers and fishermen of Nova Scotia, organized cooperatives in the 19303 that quickly prospered, now earn more than $100 million a year and have spread as far as India and Ceylon; of cancer; in Antigonish...
...with the banking business. But the sea was in his blood, and in his junior year he discovered Professor Henry Bigelow, who was then officially a zoologist but whose real interest was oceanography. Columbus gave up all thought of banking. He ordered the schooner Chance built in Nova Scotia, on graduation set off in her for the icy coast of Labrador with a crew of college students on his first oceanographic trip. The student-scientists fraternized with Eskimos, exploded firecrackers in one another's beds, and otherwise acted their ages, but the Chance, loaded with real scientific apparatus, came...