Word: planet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years old, yet at 44 and 45 he had smashed to smithereens all former world's records whether amateur or professional for 50 and 100 miles. And strange to relate, but nevertheless true, Newton may have run on the planet Mars for all that American sports writers knew of his phenomenal performances, which indicated that our sports writers were none too well posted or familiar with what was being done elsewhere in this line of general athletics. Two years ago our papers were full of some "feats" in long distance...
...Super-Spectacle of 68 Scenes-Meeting America's Demand For Sophisticated Entertainment." The purpose of at least two of its gaudy interludes is so sophisticated as to become practically unintelligible to most spectators. At one point the stage is filled with grotesque figures garbed as inhabitants of the "Planet X," who burst into an inexplicable ditty about "The March of Time." Even more confused is the 20-min scene "Freedom Ring," which closes Act I. Here several score of young women prance up and down the boards antiphonally chanting "Prohibition! Prohibition!" occasionally leaving the stage free for other mummers...
Pluto was the name announced by Roger Lowell Putnam, spokesman for Lowell observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) as having been chosen for the New Planet discovered from there this year (TIME. March 24). "We felt . . . that the line of Roman gods for whom the other planets are named should not be broken," explained Mr. Putnam...
...Ernest William Brown, Yale mathematics professor, joined the growing ranks of Planet X doubters. He said he had checked the calculations of the late Astronomer Percival Lowell, the planet's predicter, had discovered inaccuracies...
...would not have tallied with calculations. In 1900, X would have been 40° from the predicted path, in 1875 90° away. Basis for the Lowell calculations was the fact that the path of Uranus was being warped by some outside influence which was attributed to the predicted planet. X, said Dr. Brown, is too small to exert such a pressure. Siding with Dr. Brown in the doubting column are: Dr. William Duncan MacMillan of University of Chicago, who maintains that X's path is hyperbolic, not elliptical; Professor H. E. Wood, astronomer for the South African Union...