Word: novas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From this point, it is expected, that other coronal lines will soon be interpreted and the mystery of the corona completely cleared up. The recent discovery at Mt. Wilson of a new star, Nova Ophiuchi, which also shows coronal lines at one stage of its explosive outburst has greatly facilitated this solution of coronal radiation...
...that astute big game fisherman, Novelist Zane Grey, traveled from the Pacific coast, where taking big tuna had been studied and solved, to East Jordon Bay, Nova Scotia. There he tied into and landed a 758-lb. "horse mackerel" that set a world's record and started a new fashion in Atlantic game-fishing. Last week, after many cruises and much patient observation, a slim, 22-year-old college boy duplicated Fisherman Grey's feat and came within 93 pounds of the present world's record, with by far the biggest tuna ever landed...
...charts made by Pan American, by the British Arctic Air Route Expedition and by Germany's Von Gronau in the north; and by Imperial Airways at Bermuda, Aeropostale at the Azores, where France got exclusive operating privileges from Portugal. Imperial, of course, has practically automatic concessions in Bermuda, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador. Pan American has secured exclusive operating concessions in Iceland. From Denmark it got exclusive rights to survey Greenland with a view toward ultimate operation...
...built one of the largest power & light systems in the U. S. He had wanted to form the Second Biggest Steel Company. As the largest investor in the largest rubber companies he had planned to bring peace to that warring industry. But. above all. this youngish man from Pugwash. Nova Scotia dreamed of a Midwest industrial empire, vast, powerful, autonomous. His holding company was appropriately Continental Shares, Inc. Without a trace of sarcasm Cleveland used to call him Cyrus the Great...
...population of the 13 States was still loyal to King & Country and, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, suffered a white pogrom at the hands of their exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they did not land for a week. All summer long the Spring Fleet ferried back & forth until some...