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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High Altitude Rocket. Dr. Robert H. Goddard, Professor of Physics at Clark University, declaring that the discharge of a rocket which might reach the moon or a planet is entirely feasible on the basis of experiments already made, called for support in order that actual trial flights may be made this coming year, and that America may retain her lead in meteorology...
...expect. The spaces involved in astronomical measurements are too great to be comprehended. Astronomers, like Flammaxion, for example, realize that there are universes without end, infinite distances apart in infinite space. They know that the whole solar system has been moving through space for ages,--that no star, no planet ever has the same absolute position twice. The popular classification of stars as "fixed", is therefore a purely arbitrary...
...know what place Mr. Gandhi would be accorded, but there is no doubt that apart from the local and temporal part that Mr. Gandhi has played he will go down in the history of the World as one of the great souls that has been born on this planet to express the will of providence, to demonstrate with all human firmness the truth of the eternal moral order, and to lay bare the guilt of man against man which in the outcome of sheer ignorance and moral degeneration...
Manhattan Island was the focal point of baseball interest all over the world. Fanatics overflowed the city's hotels to see the " Yankees " (American League champions) play the " Giants" (National League champions) for what is generally conceded to be the championship of the planet in this sport. Four out of seven games were to decide the winner...
...best work the bacteria do is the demolition of organic compounds (human and animal waste, dead bodies and plants) into simpler nitrates and carbonates - forms which plants can utilize again. Without the participation of microbes in this cycle, life upon this planet would inevitably cease. Without them, civilized communities would long ago have been overwhelmed in their own waste products. Spread upon the surface of the earth, these become harmless through microbic activity. These upper layers of the soil are the ancestral home of the bacteria, where they are concentrated most thickly. Germs which break down organic matter...