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Several hundred people crowded the lecture room to hear Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the greatest woman star-gazers, recount the stupendous facts and figures which are the daily fare of the inhabitants of the Observatory hill...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgis, | Title: CRACKPOTS, INQUISITIVE OPEN-NIGHT VISITORS BELEAGUER ASTRONOMERS | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

Without waiting for a recount of University of Puerto Rico's students, who had demanded that he choose between the chancellorship of their university and the Governorship of their island, Rexford Guy Tugwell resigned the $15,000 chancellorship, was sworn into the $10,000 Governorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Class of '45 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...margin was so fabulously small-77 out of a total of 566,551 votes counted-that it could be considered virtually a dead heat. Although Texas law considers a plurality of one vote sufficient in a special election, the Election Bureau took it for granted that a recount would be demanded, that it might be weeks before Texas knew the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Close Thing | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Brien, head patched, shaken but still jaunty, was perfectly willing to recount her adventure. Said she: "I said to myself . . . 'Oh, God, give me strength. . . .' Then I hit him a bat on the side of the jaw and he went , . . sprawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. O'Brien Says a Prayer | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...went to George Scott once again in a neat 24.1 clocking, with Don Barker of the Alumni getting a second and Lonnie Stowell of the Varsity a third. Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson got a second and third in the dive behind Rusty Greenhood, (McCutcheon won on a recount Sunday), and the stage was set for the best race of the night. Frannie Powers and Lonnie Stowell finished one-two in a 54.6 century ahead of Scott and Cutler. The Alumni quartet of Barker, Fallon, Scott, and Hutter took the relay in 1:38.2 by a body-length...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERMEN WIN CLOSE MEET WITH ALUMNI | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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