Word: saturn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have tried to banish tip sheets from Wall Street, but investors may still buy astrological magazines in Manhattan's financial district. In American Astrology for July, a market forecast by one Colby Griffin said that the conjunction of Mercury and Mars "in square aspect to Saturn . . . (the house of speculation)" made caution in July investments advisable...
...phenomenon. It was a British amateur named J. P. M. Prentice who discovered Nova Herculis, the spectacular "new star" of 1934 (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). A British music-hall comedian named Will Hay was among the first to see the great white spot which erupted on the belly of Saturn three years ago (TIME, Aug. 21, 1933). The orbit of Pluto was theoretically predicted by professionals, but that outermost planet was actually discovered by an amateur named Clyde W. Tombaugh while working at Lowell Observatory in Arizona...
...like famed Nova Herculis of 1934. Last week Professor William Henry Barton Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, operating the Zeiss projector in the new Hayden Planetarium, ran celestial time backward and showed how the Star might have been a planetary conjunction. In 8 B.C. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars were very close together, as the projector showed on the vault of the Planetarium dome. When the projector was run slowly forward, the three planets merged, shone brilliantly...
...atmospheric friction, will make steaming cauldrons of the seas, a smoking ruin of the land. At 20,000 miles what remains of the moon will break in two. then into successively smaller pieces, some of which, falling into satellitic orbits, will form glowing rings around Earth like those around Saturn. By that time, though, no human eye will be left to see them...
...lecture hall of Building D at the Harvard Observatory, the entrances to which are on Concord Avenue opposite Buckingham Street and at 60 Garden Street opposite Linnean. If the weather permits, those attending the program will be given the opportunity to make telescopic observations of celestial bodies. The planet Saturn will be one of the particular objects of study...