Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mathematical plus sign (+); for 1,000 or sen, approximately that of the plus-or-minus sign (±). The careless reporter had added the upper cross bar. The new "planet" is a planetoid, about 110 not 11,000 miles in diameter. It lies between Mars and Jupiter in the general orbit of the thousand-odd other planetoids (TIME, March...
...penurious nobility of Europe made many calls on his purse, as did the many sycophants revolving in the orbit of a rich man. Of such he made society correspondents of the Herald, to two ends. Firstly these people had their entrée in society; secondly, their salaries helped to keep down profits. And the salaries were high. Real newspaper men on the Herald could not aspire to them...
...solution offered by the higher reaches of science. In life, as in the research institute, the lines break down. The municipal architect must be a jack-of-all-trades within the orbit of his particular calling, able to judge, if he cannot actually execute, work of an electrical, mechanical or artistic nature, and of very varied content, ranging from the most technical to the most theoretical. Only in projects, patterned after this approach to reality, could Dr. Dewey see relief from latter-day conflicts...
...this "yardstick of space beyond the stars," to an unrelaxing effort to calibrate it ever more accurately, Dr. Michelson has devoted 52 years. In its pursuit he has literally turned the light on light, made it disclose new truths: about stars so huge that the earth and its whole orbit could be dropped in them and lost; about the ether; about the mysterious place in the universe toward which the sun, all the planets are hurrying at terrific speed...
Only 17 mi. in diameter, Eros is one of the smallest members of the large family of minor planets which number over 1,000. Almost all the group follow orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Eros, however, does not travel in a conventional asteroid path, wanders sometimes between Mars and Jupiter, sometimes between Mars and Earth. Discovered in 1898 by Dr. Gustav Witt at the Urania Observatory in Berlin, the small planet was given a masculine name because of its eccentric orbit. According to astronomical custom, only asteroids which move in an ordinary orbit are given feminine names. The cycle...