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Perhaps the quickest and most successful way to discover variable or new stars is the simple method of superposing two glass photographs of the same celestial region, taken on different nights. One of the photographs should be negative, on which the stars are black, and the other a positive on which they are white...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Cannon Reveals Galaxies Ten Blocks From Harvard Sq. | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...victor in an overtime contest, forcing Cuneo, 230 pound football player, to carry the match into two overtime periods, finally throwing the Columbia grappler for a fall after 12 minutes and 45 seconds of intensive fighting. Nathaniel Warner '30 won the fourth fall of the evening in the quickest time of the meet, pinning his opponent's shoulders to the mat in less than half the time allotted for the bout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MATMEN THROW COLUMBIA | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...quickest, sharpest G. 0. P. answer to Nominee Smith's farmstorming tour was emitted by Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, official Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senators | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...name of France that their professional honor stands wholly vindicated, and hastened to add his conviction that they are excelled in no respect by foreign telephonists. Scandinavians and U. S. citizens who used Paris telephones, last week, were not so sure, still think the service in the homelands quickest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Smart Citizens | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...situation is that in this day of far flung publicity those errors are flung broadeast through the country. And the graduates humiliated and ashamed and, perhaps, too, a little forgetful of their own youthful indiscretions, turn to the suggestion of graduate control for the CRIMSON as the quickest remedy for an undisputed evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER PRESIDENT OF CRIMSON COMMENTS ON DAILY'S STATUS TODAY | 2/3/1928 | See Source »

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