Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-exposure plate Mt. Wilson Observatory's Edwin Powell Hubble lately found a streak of light which was subsequently identified by other telescope men as an asteroid, one of some 1,400 small planets between Mars and Jupiter. It was a remarkable asteroid in that its orbit was more steeply inclined (39°) to the general plane of planetary revolution than any other except one (43°). But it seemed odd for Dr. Hubble, of all astronomers, to be making such a discovery, for the realm in which he usually works is so distant that the asteroids by comparison...
Last week able William Edward Levis, head of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., took over Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co. Libbey makes tumblers, glasses, finger-bowls, pitchers, all manner of glass tableware, is not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford which makes plate glass. With the glass business, like the bottle business, boomed by Repeal, Libbey should earn about $500,000 in 1935. Mr. Levis paid for the Libbey company with 47,200 shares of Owens-Illinois stock which closed last week at 106 and so constituted a $5,000,000 consideration. Libbey will operate as an Owens-Illinois division with...
...That's the secret," came back Il Duce, pointing to a plate on which lay a peach, a pear and a bunch of grapes. "Fruit! Fruit! FRUIT...
Professor Demos, "Plate's Theory of the Soul" Emer...
Among the promising twirlers who reported for practice are H. M. Curtis and two south-paws, J. T. Allen and H. N. Edinburgh. Backing up the plate in the practice games have been J. Coburn and F. S. White, while the initial bag has been held down by R. W. Galbraith, Jr., and P. F. Cunningham. Cunningham captained the Brooks School nine last year...