Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial in the June Forum attacks the grim problem of employment facing so many of the alumni of 1932 by suggesting that the well-to-do graduates spend at least two years abroad "exploring the minds and strange conduct of the very different peoples who make our planet so much unalike." The editor cites the fact that the number of men from the Harvard class of 1932 who intend to enroll in the graduate schools is ten percent greater than that of the class of 1926 who remained for post-graduate study. If as many as possible of these...
...None of Planet Jupiter's four bright moons, which ordinarily may be scanned by a $5 or $10 telescope, was visible from the U. S. one evening last week. That was a rare coincidence which had not happened since May 10, 1914 and will not happen again until July...
Jupiter, largest of the Sun's nine planets and heavier than all the other eight planets combined, has nine satellites. Large astronomical telescopes have difficulty in discerning five of them. Two others are each as big as Earth's Moon. The two remaining are each half as large again. They surpass Planet Mercury in size. Names given these four are Callisto, Io, Europa, Ganymede. During last week's performance they rapidly displayed all the relations of satellite to planet...
...planetary shadow where it was eclipsed. Only Io then was visible until Ganymede came out from behind Jupiter. Then Io began its transit across the face of Jupiter whose brightness made the duller satellite invisible, and Ganymede passed into the eclipsing shadow. Then all moonless looked nine-mooned Planet Jupiter...
...native fishers, who looked on the continent as a distant planet, he was a wonder and delight. By day he would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he was an awkward hand, and let them alone, but in the pub at evening a grand man for a pot of ale and a wild story of the foreign lands. They would sit and talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming...