Word: sirius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post of publicity director went to Henry M. Stevens, Jr. '50, of membership director to James C. Currey, Jr. '52, and of newsletter editor to Sirius Proestopoulos...
...also because they represent barbarism and anachronism allen to our civilization. Our object is not to worship the goddess Free Enterprise, but, first to define and then investigate the system, and see how it can be improved for the benefit of all America and of the whole world. Sirius Proestopoulos, '51 Vice-President, Free Enterprise Society
...Lockheed, which had been started in 1916 by two barnstorming brothers, Allan and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed). Their planes were already famed; Wiley Post had circled the globe in a Vega, Sir Hubert Wilkins flew one over the Arctic Circle to Spitsbergen, the Lindberghs flew a later model, the Sirius, "north to the Orient." But Lockheed's till was empty. In the great pre-depression merger mania, the Loughead brothers sold out to the Detroit Aircraft Corp. Detroit Aircraft soon went broke...
...deuterons-the heavy hydrogen nuclei derived from heavy water. Individual atoms have been smashed, but in a bomb atoms must explode in quantity, each disintegrating atom setting off others. The new Nazi experiments are said to be along lines suggested by the composition of the "White Dwarf," companion of Sirius, which is the densest known star...
...brightly starred, with "room still for such names as Sevastopol and Smolensk and Stalingrad." China gets Cygnus (Chiang Kai-shek for Deneb, Confucius for Albireo, etc.). Germany and Japan get nary a one, but Hitler and Mussolini are placed in the constellation Draco (the Snake) renamed The Tyrants. Sirius, brightest star in the sky, falls in the constellation of South Africa and is called Smuts. There are constellations for the arts, science and for children (with stars for Alice and Peter...