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Word: seeings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Watchers of the skies in the wee small hours this week may see the most important, if not the most spectacular, meteoric display of 30 years, according to Dr. W. J. Fisher, of the Harvard Observatory. The long missing Leonids, one of the most brilliant of meteor showers, should begin to be visible tomorrow night, between the hours of midnight and dawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star-Gazers May See Meteor Display Between Midnight and Dawn This Week--Astronomers Expect Return of Leonids | 11/13/1929 | See Source »

Friends of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson were just as surprised as friends of Irene Bordoni, musicomedienne (Paris), to see Mrs. Wilson's name under Miss Bordoni's picture by mistake in the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Last week's news of the two ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Wilson, in Peiping, China, was telling about her Orient-touring experiences, including a $3 ride in a baggage car to see the Great Wall. The conductor, learning his passenger's identity, got her a chair, a supply of tea, rice cakes, persimmons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

President Madden will retain his Deanship at New York University while he directs the fortunes of the Institute. He will see that each Alexander Hamilton applicant receives his 24 textbooks, his monthly "lecture," reading directions, business reports. Besides the two-year course, President Madden will direct three new 16-month courses in production, marketing, finance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mail Order President | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...been imported. They were bought two years ago for $40 each from a reputable animal dealer; 2) both were males, which eliminated any chance of multiplication. While Zoo officials obtained a stay of execution and the lawyers sought the right to defend the condemned, St. Louisans flocked to see a mongoose. Fed on horse, goat and cow meat by Zoo-man George P. Vierheller, the two martyrs grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: St. Louis Mongooses | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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