Word: orbits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite untrue that Edward of Wales always popped off to a night club. He often popped off to rove restlessly and sympathetically about the slums, exclaiming at scenes of squalor "How ghastly!", but he did pop off, often with Americans and nearly always to points beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King...
...address is Harvard, may be called a faculty and college of mathematics. The endowment required for one of the new scholarships is $25,000. President Conant has been eager to attract to Cambridge promising students from regions separated from the Eastern colleges by expensive distances and naturally within the orbit of local or State universities. The new scholarships will be a continuation and broadening of the prize fellowships already open to Middle Westerners, the first fruits of Dr. Conant's journey in search of talent--genius preferred...
...long-exposure plate Mt. Wilson Observatory's Edwin Powell Hubble lately found a streak of light which was subsequently identified by other telescope men as an asteroid, one of some 1,400 small planets between Mars and Jupiter. It was a remarkable asteroid in that its orbit was more steeply inclined (39°) to the general plane of planetary revolution than any other except one (43°). But it seemed odd for Dr. Hubble, of all astronomers, to be making such a discovery, for the realm in which he usually works is so distant that the asteroids by comparison...
...Presiding over the congress was a U. S. astronomer, square, heavy-jowled Director Frank Schlesinger of Yale Observatory, whose fame is associated with parallax. Earth's annual orbit around the Sun is 186,000,000 miles across; therefore the direction of stars as observed from Earth on opposite sides of that orbit changes slightly. This change is called parallax. Even the nearer stars are so far off that their parallax is extremely small, and for remote stars it is not discernible at all. Nevertheless since the amount of apparent displacement depends on how far away the star is, parallax...
...Columbia undergraduate is strongly perturbed. A cup of coffee in one hand and a library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...