Word: planets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years of life that even the greatest can hope to be actively famous. Why not the first ten as soon as the last? And, finally, it is the children of Hollywood alone that seem able consistently to interpret life for the screen as it really exists on this strange planet...
...existence of organic life on Mars has again become a subject of lively speculation through the report of P. M. Ryves, a British astronomer who has been studying the red planet for the past ten years through a powerful telescope from a height of 8,000 feet on Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands. Mars " appears far from a dead world," says Mr. Ryves, but " whether it is inhabited by intelligent beings like ourselves is perhaps the most absorbing question that confronts the human race." Since the pioneer observations of Professors Percival Lowell and W. H. Pickering, of Harvard, about...
...smaller and older than the earth, and must have cooled at its surface millions of years before the earth. But neither Dr. Pickering, Mr. Ryves, Dr. Campbell (of Lick Observatory) or any other Martian experts are yet in a position to make positive statements regarding higher life on the planet. In August, 1924, Mars will be nearer to the earth (34,000,000 miles) than it has been since 1909, and we may learn a lot more about...
...overestimates the information of its readers. " This is the outstanding sin of highbrow journalism. . . "The ideal magazine article should be written as if the men and women who were to read it had just dropped from the planet Mars...
Between 7.30 and 9 o'clock tonight the public has been invited to study the planet Saturn, before a lecture by Dr. W. J. Luten on "The Nearest Stars", at the Harvard College Observatory on Concord Avenue, opposite Huntington Street...