Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...triumphant day. On a sugarloaf-shaped mountain in southwestern Texas, Astronomer Struve. already director of the University of Chicago's famed Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, took on an additional job: he officially accepted the directorship of the University of Texas' new McDonald Observatory, which houses the second largest operating telescope in the world. Its mirror is 82 inches across, just under seven feet...
...Biggest working telescope is Mt. Wilson's 100-incher in California. This will drop to second place and the McDonald instrument to third when Caltech gets its 200-inch giant into action, perhaps next year...
...wise: The second half of 1939 is expected to see Public Works expenditure decline from its 1938 volume of $880,000,000, offsetting by so much increased armament expenditures. If President Roosevelt decides to balance the budget for the 1940 elections the Government may actually put less money into the public economic pot after the rise in National Defense expenditures than before...
...chorus and orchestra were given first U. S. hearings. The first was a smoldering, wrath-&-judgment Old-Testament oratorio, Watchman, What of the Night? by James Gutheim Heller, rabbi of Cincinnati's aged Plum Street Temple. A chorus of 600 children helped Soprano Helen Jepson sing the second: a complicated Magnificat by German-born Hermann Hans Wetzler, who once played the organ in Manhattan's Trinity Church...
Divorced. Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, teary, leery cinema plug-ugly; by his second wife, Mary Arieta Gilman Beery (his first: Gloria Swanson); in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...