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...problem. Signs of the anciently known planets are conventionalized pictures. Mercury's represents the Caduceus, or head with winged cap; Venus' a looking glass; the Earths its equator and a meridian; Mars', a shield and spear, or a warrior's head with helmet and plume; Jupiter's an eagle; Saturn's a scythe or sickle; Uranus' H for Herschel. with a planet suspended from the crossbar; Neptune's the trident. The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier. That sign might stand for the new planet as a recognition of Percival Lowell...
...solar system can be grasped by considering Augusta, Me., as the sun and Sacramento. Calif., 2,663 air miles away, as the New Planet. Earth would then circle through Portland, Me., Mercury through Wiscasset, Me Venus through Rockland, Me., Mars through Bar Harbor, Me., Jupiter through Bridgeport, Conn., Saturn through Annapolis, Md.; Uranus through Nashville, Tenn., Neptune through Oklahoma City...
...star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being 1,000 times greater than Earth...
Most of the entourage having slept through the Niagara Falls sojourn, the Instrumentalists arrived in Buffalo in time for the luncheon at the Saturn Club on Delaware Avenue. This was followed by swimming in the Club's excellent pool before the tea dance at the Club from 4 to 6 o'clock. A special holiday dinner was served to the men before they left for the Twentieth Century Club where the concert was followed by a dance. The Tennis Club and Country Club dances each attracted a Harvard following, while the greatest number of men went to a special entertainment...
While at Chicago the musicians have been invited to all the New Year's Eve dances and entertainments. The Harvard Princeton Yale Club has granted them all privileges. At Buffalo, where the Clubs will be entertained by a trip to Niagara Falls, the Saturn and Athletic Clubs have granted the University players full use of their facilities...