Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these deficits ? They will begin by effecting a "blue-sky" agreement on bidding for conductors. Seventy thousand dollars was offered last week to a conductor to come to New York. Such bidding can only result in vaster deficits. To devise a policy of "live and let live" is Mr. Mackay's purpose...
Within memory of living man, when western colleges were eggs, Harvard and Yale filled the college world as land and sky fill the horizon...
...time for panic mongering or wild talk. Undoubtedly the advent of a new party?a most inexperienced party?of which certain extremists make proposals which shock us, has caused uneasiness, but there has been no panic, nor anything that can be described as such. The sky is not black with pound notes winging their way across the Atlantic, but doubtless much investment is being done abroad. However, world trade and British prosperity are balanced on a knife edge, and very little might turn the balance either way. Indiscreet speech by prominent members of the Government or failure of the Government...
...more than thirty years the University has maintained a southern station in order that its series of celestial photographs might cover the whole sky. After the investigation of 1889 of various sites in Peru and Chile, the branch observatory was located in the Andes Mountains near Arequipa, at an altitude of eight thousand feet. Throughout a large part of the year the astronomical conditions in this high altitude are excellent, and the astronomers working at Arequipa have secured more than a hundred thousand photographs of southern stars. During the Peruvian summer; however, in the months from December to March...
...inch photographic telescope is being used for the study of variable stars in the southern Milky Way, and in the Magellanic Clouds. A special telescope with wide-angle lens carries on the photographic patrol of the whole southern sky--an investigation long maintained by the University in order to have a continuous record of the variations or of any unusual behavior of the brighter stars...