Word: planeters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Blum heartily wished Spain would float away to some other planet while the French Chamber of Deputies adjourned and the Bank of France was reorganized, but he and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos had to do something about Spain and kept pressing upon the Great Powers their round-robin resolution for absolute neutrality (TIME, Aug. 17). Benito Mussolini declared that Italy could adhere to it only if all powers signatory to it would bind themselves not only to refuse "State aid" to Spain but to prevent "private aid" as well from reaching Madrid. In a rage at this, some...
During his 69 years on this planet, Alan Spencer Hawkesworth of Washington, D. C., by profession a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, has served as mathematician in the Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance, has lectured on philosophy, discovered some 100 new theorems in geometrical conies, become a cuneiform expert, passed through four South American revolutions and has seen ''heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such...
...TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). A British music-hall comedian named Will Hay was among the first to see the great white spot which erupted on the belly of Saturn three years ago (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). The orbit of Pluto was theoretically predicted by professionals, but that outermost planet was actually discovered by an amateur named Clyde W. Tombaugh while working at Lowell Observatory in Arizona...
...help goes in the midst of the enormous difficulties in which we are embroiled, America today is on another planet. How can men be so silly as to forget their friends? Today I sometimes wonder whether Roosevelt may not be the last American President we shall see friendly to us. Who knows but that some day soon we shall see a German-American in the White House...
Although it is but one third of a mile in diameter and is the smallest heavenly body known, the recently discovered "Delporte object" is now found to be an asteroid, or small planet, according to an announcement, made yesterday by Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory...