Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wednesday lecture will be on "The Planet Mars," by Loring B. Andrews, instructor in Astronomy. The Friday lecture will be on "Photography in Astronomy," by Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy. Next Monday's lecture will be on "New Stars for Old," by Dr. Geeilia H. P. Gaposchkin. All lectures will begin at 7.30 o'clock...
...stagnation, Earth does not appear to be growing any older. The forces which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted her crust seem to continue with unabated vigor. The planet trembles almost continuously, as some 8,000 earthquakes a year bear witness. Islands sink out of sight in the sea, and new ones emerge. Rain and wind level old mountains; young ones are thrust up on the shoulders of mysterious forces below. Whence comes all this energy...
...also lunatics, and wrote lengthy, sorrowing reports of what they saw and heard. Students of cultural anthropology, however, began to realize that these backward people were not irresponsible children but that their entire mental orientation was as different from civilized man's as though they inhabited another planet. With trained scientists in the field correcting and supplementing the first reports, it became further apparent that the primitive worldview, whatever its logic, was surprisingly consistent...
...bound, So that not power misled nor ease ensnared him Who had spared himself no more than his seas had spared him!" IX After his lieges, in all his lands, Had laid their hands between his hands And his ships thundered service and devotion, The tide wave, ranging the planet, spoke On all our foreshores as it broke: "Know now what man I gave you-I, the ocean...
...tidal theory is behind the method worked out by Reuben Greenspan. Last month he told a newshawk that a conjunction of the moon and the planet Jupiter seemed to indicate earth disturbances "in islands northeast of Australia" for July 11 and 12. Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...