Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most astonishing of all, Professor Baxter's work at the University long since proved that the iron and nickel which fall from the sky in meteorites coming from the spaces for beyond the earth's orbit have exactly the same atomic weights as iron and nickel from the earth a fact cited as indicating in one respect, at least, the unity of the universe...
...some of it will be erected in the Agissez Theatre this evening. What is probably the most difficult set to construct will be used in "The Crows Nest", the action of which takes place in the crows nest of an ocean liner. An invention to represent the curved sky background to the rigging of a ship has been perfected, and is being constructed in the Workshop on the lines of a patented model by Rollow Wayne 2G., who last year was stage manager of the Workshop, and this year has charge of the design, construction and painting of the scenery...
...city which have long since been destroyed. The etchings include "The Stryge", its title written in pencil by Meryon himself; "La Galorie de Notre Dame", with its reflected light, a presentation copy, bearing in Meryon's handwriting "a Mr. Hillemacher"; the "Pont an Change" with its wonderful sky effect; the "Abside de Notre Dame"; and "La Pompe Notre Dame...
...days Harvard herself has been honored by the degree in mathematics and astronomy conferred on her distinguished astronomer, "Miss Annie J. Cannon, by the University of Groningen. How much "gray matter" could have been missing from the brain of the woman who discovered three new luminaries in the sky, added 150 "variables" to the celestial map, and catalogued the spectra of 220,000 stars in all parts of the heavens? --Boston Herald...
...Americans, living now in your concrete sky-scraping tents, are still a nomad nation without any civilization". Thus does Dr. Ku Hung-Ming, writing in the New York Times calmly dismiss whatever pretensions we may cherish as to the advancement of these United States...