Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over a period of eight years the British forces now holding garrisons throughout Egypt will gradually be concentrated along the Suez Canal, it being estimated that the Egyptians will take eight years to build suitable barracks for them there and complete the strategic roads. Since Egyptian public opinion is exceedingly hostile to continued British occupation of the Citadel at Cairo-equivalent to occupation of the Tower of London by an alien military force-it was expected that the British would soon quit the Citadel and that this would be a popular feather in the fez of Premier Nahas...
...stars in the sky are known as Cepheid variables. Some internal pulse causes them to vary in brightness, in cycles of a few days or a few weeks. Most of them are hot, yellow, supergiants. Harlow Shapley at Mount Wilson worked out a relation between their luminosities and variation periods which yielded clues to shape and dimensions of the whole Milky Way (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last week Dr. Shapley, now director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks, the period gradually...
...Recklessly breaking record after record, the automobile industry reported sales in the third quarter 21% ahead of the corresponding period last year...
...Consumption of electricity in August's last week was up 18% over last year's similar period...
...Texas Rangers (Paramount) represents Hollywood's most determined effort to date to capitalize that glorious period of a State in the making, of which the amusement possibilities have already been so strikingly demonstrated by Showman Billy Rose and his Fort Worth Nude Ranch...