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...number of such particles. From these factors Dr. Struve calculates there is not more than one particle of star dust in each 15 cu. in. of interstellar space. If that is so, then all the star dust along the 25-million-million-mile line between Earth and Proxima Centauri, nearest star except the Sun, could be packed in a half-inch cube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star Dust Blue | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...substamus totam vestram epistolam. Quid in natione sunt "Proctores'? Et "Bull-dogs"? Si ullus Professor hic attemptavict mittere canes post nos, calculamus ut ille preciose cito esset pendens do proxima poste lampadum, condamnatus Judice Lynchio, - alia splendida institutione Americana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Boom in Foreign Tongues. | 1/6/1887 | See Source »

...occasionem alterius petulantibus vocibus consectandi praetermittit. Jam paucis diebus ante cum convivis aliis hospites amici fuerunt. Ridetur, editur, potatur, ut omnes non minus animo quam ventre delectentur. Sermonis cursu a Doctore B. rogatus, ut fabellam narraret, "Fabella digna, quam narrem," Doctor A. respondet, "mihi non est; mihi autem somnium proxima nocte mirum fuit, quod, amici mei, si vobis placcat, libenter narrabo. Me mortuum esse et ad Paradisum iter contendisse somniavi. Petro Sancto invento, ut intrarem, ab ipso petii. 'Quis es?' rogat Petrus. 'Doctor A., Bostonianus,' respondeo. 'Doctor A., Bostonianus? vehementer doleo, amice, quod non intres, sed mehercle! ut medicus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

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