Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover the movement is wide spread. Tuxedos are out of favor in Berlin, and the social world is revolving on an orbit of hired dress suits. Oregon, after abolishing private schools, has taken a fling at convention and outlawed finger-bowls as "filthy and dangerous and tip-inducing." So important has the question become that a Representative in Congress is encountering serious opposition as candidate for majority leader solely because he owns too many sack suits and has them repaired too often...
...ultra-microscopic part, the actual distance to many of the brighter stars had to be measured. When Copernicus promulgated the heliocentric theory in 1543 through the publication of his epoch-making book. 'De Revolution-ibus Orbium Coelestium", it was seen that the motion of the earth in its orbit about the sun should produce an apparent displacement or change in direction of a star as the observer was carried in the space of six months from one side to the other of the orbit 186,000,000 miles across. In spite of this very great length of base line...
Most astonishing of all, Professor Baxter's work at the University long since proved that the iron and nickel which fall from the sky in meteorites coming from the spaces for beyond the earth's orbit have exactly the same atomic weights as iron and nickel from the earth a fact cited as indicating in one respect, at least, the unity of the universe...