Word: planets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interpretation of the origin of the asteroids, those thousands of tiny bodies that circulate around the sun in orbits between those of Jupiter and Mars, leaves much to be desired. Are they fragments of one or more small planets broken up by collision, or are they the wreckage of a planet that came too near to the gigantic Jupiter? Persistent observation and the development of mathematical theories should in time solve this mystery...
...Leonids have shown up regularly three times a century for more than a thousand years, but failed to appear when last due at the beginning of the present century. Astronomers suspect that their failure was due to the huge planet Jupiter being too close to their orbit and pulling them off schedule...
Criticism of U. S. teachers came last week from Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, addressing the annual convocation of summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have always reproduced their own species, but never had any part in the evolution of other living creatures. . . . There are brachiopod teachers who transmit their own minds but do not stimulate students to advance human knowledge...
...Queen of the Universe' seems rather a large title. Miss Goldarbeiter would probably be amazed if she could see the young ladies on some planet one million light years away from this corner of space and those far off interstellar young women, perhaps 1,000 times as big as Miss Goldarbeiter, and each with 1,000 eyes, perhaps, would be surprised...
...last of the "crucial" primaries was held in West Virginia. Smith beat Reed. His nomination looked as certain as such things can look upon a planet inhabited by human beings...