Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concern his existence as a terrestrial being. The astronomer needs must look around him as well as above his head. For the study of the physical characteristics of the stars carries one into the realm of atomic physics and spectroscopic theory. The astronomical treatment of the earth as a planet necessarily requires the assistance of geology. The motions of the planets provide the application of the laws of dynamics in a somewhat more complex state of affairs than that provided by most terrestrial conditions. And, of course, the student of astronomy, and the professional astronomer too, finds a knowledge...
...After skirting its southern fringe for more than two months, on Jan. 10, 1931, Explorer Thomas and 13 Arabs made tracks across; on Feb. 4 they emerged at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The journey emptied geography of ignorance, emptied also any hopes of discovering a better world on Planet Earth. The cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent...
...registers already organized among the young men and women of twenty-two countries? Will they soon be counted among the active workers in the War Resister's League, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, or similar expanding agencies eager to enrol young persons in the crusade to drive war off our planet? Are they sharing in the struggle to create a social order which will make peace possible? In the long run the answers to such questions will determine the effectiveness of these awakened undergraduates. --The Nation
...star which exploded of its own accord. The prevailing hypothesis is Dr. Forest Ray Moulton's as modified by Sir James Hopwood Jeans, namely, that a big star once passed near a small star (which men call the Sun), and caused some tidal eruptions, which became planets. Pluto an Accident. It was just a 'lucky accident" that the newest planet Pluto was located where the late Percival Lowell figured that it would be (TIME, March 24, 1930), declared A. A. S.'s retiring president, Professor Ernest William Brown of Yale. Pluto, he thinks, is not heavy enough...
...shower, which has taken place every 33 years for more than ten centuries, failed to appear when last due in 1899, which was attributed to the hugo planet Jupiter being too close to their orbit, and pulling them out of their course...