Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the writer's conception of the world to come one cannot quarrel. The future is a thing beyond the range of the most scientific criticism. If it is to Mr. Wells' fancy to picture the world of one-hundred and eighty years hence as a planet wholly civilized, gathered into one state, its trade perfected, its people lavishly provided with every necessity and every imaginable means of happiness, well ordered and well governed, none can gainsay him. If, in the course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars...
Indignant snorts on behalf of two amateur astronomers went up in London and in Potsdam as the ringed planet Saturn last week placidly continued to whirl in & out of Earthling's sight the great spot which last fortnight erupted on its protuberant belly (TIME, Aug. 14). Washington's Naval Observatory, their snorts made it appear, had not kept the spot under observation for a seemly length of time after Astronomer John Edwin Willis sighted it. The British Astronomical Association said that one Will Hay, music-hall comedian and amateur stargazer, had spotted the spot 26 hours before Astronomer...
...week. The spot seemed to be enlarging- 8,000 mi. across-which to some astronomers suggested it might be a cloud of dust kicked up by the impact of a huge meteorite. Others thought that, since the spot was observed to rotate precisely in the schedule determined for the planet by the late Professor Asaph Hall (10 hr. 14 min. 24 sec.), it could not be a drifting cloud, might be a volcanic eruption in a fixed area. To still others a volcano on cold Saturn seemed hardly more imaginable than spontaneous combustion in a snowball.* Still an enigma...
Astronomy is particularly related to Harvard. President Lowell's brother, Percival, who died in 1916, did a great deal of research work in Arigona in 1912 which led to the discovery of the ninth planet beyond Neptune several years ago. The Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff is named in hs memory...
...President Vincent, "if by virtue of the ouarit we were able to choose the Caucasian race, our history evidently would have no meaning to our descendants. Our legitimate pretension to march one day at the head of a great black civilization would fall by the wayside. . . . Henceforth, on this planet there would be nothing but white...