Word: orion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, started a new business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business by short-wave radio. His greatest ambition: to have his three living sons and son-in-law, all in his employ, keep up the Forstmann wool dynasty...
Stolen Life (Orion Productions-Paramount release). Elisabeth Bergner is a tiny, talented Viennese Jewess of 38, of whom German critics were once proud. For five years she has been making movies in English without strongly impressing U. S. audiences. Her English film debut in Catherine the Great was unfortunately shadowed in the U. S. by Marlene Dietrich's ballyhooed The Scarlet Empress, and her most successful picture, Escape Me Never (in which she also played her only Broadway role), was too easy for her to prove much. In Stolen Life, Actress Bergner gets. and takes, her first real chance...
...Wachmann Nova, however, is expected to change perhaps fifty times as slowly as the ordinary nova, thus allowing astronomers to study its phenomena with careful observations. The nova is located in the constellation Orion...
...last week the British cruiser Orion was anchored in Kingston Harbor; special police and militia were stationed at every street corner with riot guns and tear gas. At the end of the day 52 people had been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The front engine of a five-car, two-engine train on the Jamaica Central Railway, packed with Kingston citizens going to the country for the Liberation Day weekend, left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four...
...bright group of the Pleiades, near the celestial figure of amorous Orion, has been a source of wonder and speculation to shepherds and seers since the dawn of history. Telescopes reveal thousands of stars in the cluster, moving away from Earth at six miles per second (present distance: nearly two quadrillion miles). To Babylonians the naked eye stars were ''The Many Little Ones," to American Indians "The Seven Brothers." In some folklore they are called "The Seven Who Now Are Six.'' as though an ancient memory persisted that the dim star, which can be seen only...