Word: planet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eddington in The Nature of the Physical World told man that his reckoning of Time was misleading ; that the age of man could not be accurately determined by the time given by the Astronomer Royal. Two individuals, he said, one firmly rooted to the earth, the other skipping from planet to planet, would not age at the same rate. While the static man was passing through 70 years of the Astronomer Royal's time the other, provided he traveled sufficiently fast, would, during the same period, have need for only 365 dinners, luncheons, breakfasts, the same number of eight...
...Trotsky lived on, and Trotskyism (doctrine of "permanent revolution") grew more & more out of fashion. In January 1928, Trotsky and his followers, hopelessly in the minority, were ordered into exile in Central Asia. From there a year later Trotsky was deported into Turkey. Now he lives on Prinkipo, "a planet without a visa...
Announcement was made yesterday by Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, of the possibility that another hitherto unknown transneptunian planet has been discovered...
Proof of this newly discovered planet consists of several photographic plates taken at the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa...
...Named by the discoverer of uranous oxide, Marin Heinrich Klaproth, after the planet Uranus. Not until 60 years later was ''uranium" broken down into the true metal...