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...proportional to distance, increasing about 1,000 miles per second for every 10,000,000 light-years of space. Few months ago Dr. Hubble measured the fastest nebular retreat at 24,000 miles per second. That one was 240,000,000 light-years away. No decipherable spectrum of the outpost nebula reported last week was obtained, but. if it follows the rule, it is receding from Earth at 50,000 miles per second...
...dynasties (246 B.C.-907 A.D.). As opened last week the railway is the newest link in a line that strikes 650 miles into Central China, connects Sian with Shanghai, Nanking and Peiping. Later it will stab on 400 miles further to Lanchow, remote outpost just south of the Great Wall. All last week excited passengers, most of whom had galloped in on horseback to see a train for the first time in their lives, rode the new railway on "shuttle excursions" up & clown the line...
...making Prince Caetani rich when the War broke, but as soon as Italy joined the Allies he rushed home to serve his State. When he reached the front on the Dolomite Alps, 10,000 Italians had lost their lives trying to capture "The Eye of the Austrian Army," an outpost on the 9,000-foot cone-shaped mountain Col di Lana. This extended so far into the Italian line that Austrian observers could spy out every Italian thrust before it could get well started...
...well traveling salesman, much addicted to the bottle. The spectacle of his ''good and gentle-souled father" drinking himself to death made Sinclair a life-long Prohibitionist. Nor does he use tea, coffee, tobacco. He came by his radicalism early. Writes Author Sinclair in his autobiographical American Outpost: "Floyd Dell . . . asked me to explain the appearance of a social rebel in a conventional Southern family. I thought the problem over, and reported my psychology...
...York newspapers brimmed with such stuff last week because of a dozen men who often get up before dawn to "go down the Bay." They are the first outpost of the U. S. Press army, and are known as ship news reporters...