Word: novas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like to talk to Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald," gasped a nervous Nova Scotia newspaper woman. "Mr. MacDonald is rather busy and tired," was the reply in a frosty, secretarial voice from the cottage. "Well, I don't mind confessing I'd be scared to death to talk to him anyway," gushed the newspaper woman. She heard a deep, Scottish chuckle and the voice again, no longer glacial: "Well, you needn't be scared! You've been talking to him for the last two minutes...
...Novae are stars which, in making some obscure internal adjustment, flare up suddenly from sub-visibility, shine brilliantly for days, weeks or months, subside at last into their former faintness. Conspicuous as any stars in the sky at the peak of their display, they are spectacular but not rare, for nearly 40 have been observed since 1900. But the universe has superlatives. Once in a while a super-nova emerges grandiosely on the cosmic stage...
First recorded super-nova was observed in the Milky Way in 1572. It was visible in full daylight. Another appeared in Andromeda in 1885. Since 1900 about a dozen have been found by chance on photographic plates, mostly in the Virgo cluster of nebulae. Drs. Baade & Zwicky estimate that each galaxy has one super-nova every thousand years. The average nebula contains a billion stars. If one star committed suicide in the super-nova manner every thousand years, the nebula would be exhausted in one trillion years?which happens to be the figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum...
...Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Scot Willis McPhee left his house bright & early one morning bent on swapping his rusty 40.40 rifle for what he could get. Dark & late that night Scot Willis McPhee returned with a Mauser rifle, an eight-day clock, a pair of rubber boots, a yellow cat, a goat great with...
...like to putter in his garden but such an avocation is not for the resident of big, brown "Prospect." When there is no time for golf he strolls around the campus with his pipe and one of his wife's dogs. Tiny, popular Mrs. Dodds, daughter of a Nova Scotian wholesaler, likes to dance and sing. Dodd's Princeton, President Dodds has neither brought nor promised Princeton a New Deal. "I trust the alumni will pardon me," he wrote last autumn, "if at this time I propose no stirring platform of educational policy or radical reform. Princeton accepts...