Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movement of the whole solar system relative to neighbor stars takes him in the direction of Vega at about 12 miles per second...
...other visible stars belong-the Milky Way-appears to be slowly rotating. Various regions in this great disk, six hundred thousand trillion miles across, rotate at different speeds. Mr. Sit-by-the-Fire swings around the centre of the Milky Way at 170 miles per second...
...movement within the Milky Way-since he was perforce using the solar system as an observation station. After ten years of accumulating data, he gave it as his opinion last week that the Milky Way is traveling among its neighbor galaxies at a pace of 100 miles per second. Direction of movement is toward the constellation Draco, "The Dragon...
...from France, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Italy and Germany met in London last week. Their concern : the A above middle C. This A is the note by whose pitch instruments and orchestras are tuned. In the U. S. since 1918 it has been jealously maintained at 440 vibrations per second, but everywhere else the International Broadcasting Union has found "a constant and regrettable tendency to increase the frequency." After due deliberation the conferees agreed that the U. S. frequency should be adopted as standard for the world...
...Reventlow, Son Lance, Cousin Woolworth Donahue, who were soon scared away by gawking crowds; Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumanslcy; Jang Krishnan, one of four Borneo brothers who have six-inch tails; Herbert Hoover (said he: "There is no very explosive news about visiting an exposition."); John Pierpont Morgan, for the second time; Radioactor Orson Welles read the $1,000 World's Fair prize poem by 23-year-old Smith Graduate Pearl Levison. Sample...