Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo Chiang and his wife inspected the areas bombed in the earlier raids. The power plant was functioning again. A Harvard graduate named Theodore White went to his room in the Canadian-French mission school. The Associated Press correspondent stepped out of his office. Suddenly, out of the leaden sky, at 6:30, 27 Japanese bombers swept in on Chungking from the north...
Experts consider McDonald Observatory's mirror the finest piece of astronomical glass ever made. Because of the observatory's southern location, it will cover more sky than any other in the U. S.-all the sky except that relatively small part which lies within 30° of the south celestial pole. But it will not probe so far into space or catch such faint stars as Mt. Wilson's 100-incher; and Dr. Struve, candidly admitting these limitations last week, said that it would be used for those wide-vision purposes to which it is especially well...
...feet he and his navigator, husky, thin-haired Major Mikhail Gordienko, were using oxygen. Doggedly Hero Kokkinaki held his red ship, the Moskva, on its course. Near sundown, with no sight of sky or sea, his radio was frying with static like a pan of pork chops. Hopelessly lost, he turned Moskva back on its course. Finally with little more than two hours' fuel in the tanks, with oxygen running low, he fainted. Gordienko took over...
...Buzz Hovey, another man who managed to keep his position in the second boat this year. However, there is still a wrinkle in his form that needs ironing out. Although a hard worker, Hovey is apt to sky on the recovery and knife in at the catch a little. At three is one of the products of Harvey Love's own teaching, El Moffat, who halls from Bombay, India and had never done any rowing until his Freshman year, last year. Then with hard and conscientious work he took a seat in the Freshman shell and this year stepped into...
...number of variable stars were discovered in the systems by Walter Baade and Edmund P. Hubble using the powerful talescope of Mount Wilson Observatory. It was then found that older Harvard sky photographs taken at the South African station had recorded some of these variable stars. Determination of the distance of the new system followed...