Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months that he has been Minister of the Interior, Senor Serrano has outshone his plodding, unimaginative brother-in-law, stolen the show from the Spanish Generals whom he accompanied on a trip to Rome, become the leading figure of the Falangists. Ardently pro-Nazi, contemptuous of conservatives who see no point in scaring off possible British financial aid, he has boasted that Gibraltar would soon be returned to Spain, was more in evidence at receptions for Count Ciano than was General Franco...
Queen Wilhelmina gave her aged favorite a free hand in forming a new Cabinet, but the Catholics would not cooperate and an alliance between Anti-Revolutionaries and Socialists was unthinkable. After three tries he gave up. The Queen asked conservative Catholic Dr. Dionysius A. P. N. Koolen to see what he could do, but even his own party was lukewarm in its support. Last week it was Dr. Colijn's turn again, and he finally produced a Cabinet of hoary oldsters, former Cabinet members and long-pensioned colonial officials. The new Government represents but a small section of Parliament...
...Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli* first pictured the vague markings called "canals." Schiaparelli actually called them canali, which means "channels," but was translated "canals." Rivers cut channels, but canals are built by intelligent agents. In the U. S., Astronomer Percival Lowell picked up the canal idea with enthusiasm, claimed he could see them clearly. His theory: the canals were built to bring water from the melting ice of the polar caps, by Martian inhabitants desperately trying to keep their arid lands irrigated. Other astronomers, some with better eyesight than Lowell's, declared that the canals were optical and psychological illusions. Certainly...
...laymen's hopes, the question of life on Mars will probably not be solved when Caltech's 200-inch telescope gets into action (perhaps next year). The giant instrument will show Mars larger but not much clearer, on account of atmospheric distortion. The light by which earthlings see Mars is reflected sunlight-and that means light which has passed twice through the Martian atmosphere and once through the Earth...
...West Coast by Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman and 1,000 followers, many of whom traveled across the land on a 22-car "MRA Special." In the Hollywood Bowl, the Buchmanites sat on the stage beneath the acoustic shell newly labeled NEW MEN . . . NEW NATIONS . . . A NEW WORLD. To see and hear them, 25,000 Southern Californians jammed the Bowl, 10,000 more were turned away...