Word: ourly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"No report of the plans of the Tercentenary Commission would be complete were we to forget our debt to President Lowell," said Herbert Parker '78 yesterday, chairman of the commission appointed by the governor to prepare plans for the tercentennial celebration of the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
"Mr. Lowell has been our constant adviser, ever willing to assist the commission in the preparation of plans where our knowledge of the historical field was limited, and his was complete. His assistance and wholehearted co-operation has in large measure made the report of the commission possible."
To account for the observed rotation of the sun, Dr. Joffreys of England has recently proposed the theory that the planets were formed not through the tidal disruption of the sun by the near approach of another star, but by the actual glancing collision of our sun with another star...
No withstanding our immense accumulation of observations and theory, some of the most baffling mysteries of all astronomy are associated with the planets and satellites of the sun's family. No theory of the origin of the planets is wholly satisfactory, though the current tidal evolution hypothesis, which has developed...
The near approach of two stars is an exceedingly rare phenomenon. It is calculated to occur in our galactic system not oftener than once in a thousand million years. The actual collision of two stars would be a much more uncommon occurrence. Even so, however, since the astronomer measures time...