Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visible in the group, the astronomers have been unable as yet to measure its distance and size, and these characteristics must be known before the object can be properly classified. Before accurate definition of the group is possible, the observers must find within it some variable stars, whose period and brightness can be used to determine the distance and dimensions of the body, it was explained...
...President-elect Wilson. The two men first met at a New Jersey dinner and soon recognized they held common interests, since the "Texas Talleyrand" had long been studying history and politics as a hobby, while Wilson had been writing and teaching them. Like the other muckrakers of that period,--Upton Sinclair, Judge Ben Lindsay, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens--at heart Colonel House had the ideals of the reformer. After gaining Wilson's confidence, the shy and inconspicuous Texan won the opportunity to put his reforms into practice. But he dealt mainly with appointments and policies; he really chose...
After delegates of 21 nations had been greeted in Cairo's Royal Opera House by 15 kind words from King Farouk, the I. O. C.'s president, Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, said he had visions of "the dawn of a period of peace which is going to succeed a long period of obstruction and difficulties of all kinds." But Count Baillet-Latour's optimistic visions turned out to be an Egyptian mirage. No sooner had the committeemen taken a peaceful look at the pyramids and toured the Nile than they sat down aboard the steamer Victoria...
...moving scoring drives featured by deft lateral passes, the visitors romped to an early lead and left at half-time with a one-sided 27-0 margin. Apparently discouraged, the Crimson was unable to check the English parade of scores that 23 additional tallies in the last 35 minute period...
Every day before supper, a few hours are left open as a rests period for getting reacquainted and it is this feature which makes the 1913 reunion different from others of the past...