Word: planet
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...together when we part.' In expressing the thanks of the Delegates for the most cordial welcome you have given us, may I not adopt these words in behalf of the Delegates from all parts of the world? 'We shall stick together when we part.' In whatever parts of the planet we may happen to meet, the first greeting for any two of us will be 'We were at Harvard together at the inauguration of President Lowell...
William Berryman Scott, a delegate from Princeton University; a persistent and thorough explorer of early mammal forms, he has helped to draw aside the veil that shrouds the mystery of life upon our planet...
...exhilarating (not exhilirating) novelty" of Harvard's winning three great events. In Mr. Edgell's story "Two Operas" I find a pleasing old fashioned note--a story straightforwardly told and getting somewhere without baffling allusiveness or the world-worn ennui of two decades of life on this planet. The plot is a trifle better than the telling, but that fault can be remedied. A slightly cynical ending does not destroy the general simplicity. More ambitious and more difficult is the flight of "Tobias Medetates," the most important effort of this number. It is a venture into negro dialect; the character...
McClure's--"The Canadian Act," by C. W. Eliot '53; "The Planet Mars," by P. Lowell...
...University Observatory has made preparations for a special observation of the transit of the planet Mercury, which will, take place today. Mercury, crosses the base of the sun only about eight times in 100 years, the last transit occurring in 1894. The planet will leave the solar disk at 9.10 A. M. but it will be almost impossible to distinguish its passage without the aid of a field glass. The transits are valuable in determining the planet's course, and the Observatory is as favorably situated as any other in the United States for viewing the one which occurs today...