Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report that a new star has appeared in the sky was sent to the Harvard Observatory Friday by a German astronomer working in Copenhagen, along with the request that the Harvard institution check its old photographs to see if there are on them any evidences of the development of a "Nova Stella...
Appointed Brearley's headmistress in 1930 was Millicent Carey, onetime English professor and acting dean at Bryn Mawr. Young, personable, friendly, moderately progressive, Headmistress Carey increased her popularity with students in 1932 by marrying able Pediatrician Rustin McIntosh, sent it sky-high last year when she bore twin boys...
...presented with a five-acre farm and enough clothes, clocks, books and food to fill a truck. THE APOTHEOSIS OF MAN-MADE LIGHT began at 10 p. m. At midnight Rufus Cutler Dawes pulled a switch, blacking out every electric bulb in the grounds. Immediately the dark sky flared gorgeously with 500,000 bursting pyrotechnic bombs. Taps were sounded. Thus one day last week A Century of Progress came to the end of its second and last year as the nation's biggest entertainment feature...
...South Africa, the Harvard Observatory maintains the Boyden Station, located near Bolemfontein. This supplements the work of the two Massachusetts stations in the north, and makes complete for the whole sky the various researches of the Observatory...
...helmeted soldiers, elbow to elbow. Six feet behind this first line was a second line of Republican Guards, with a row of plainclothes detectives stationed between the two. Thus last week did France bury her great Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou. All the diplomats who stood bareheaded under the grey sky, all the regiments that marched past the flag-draped gun carriage, all the black crowd that stretched away for blocks had but one idea: Louis Barthou and Alexander of Jugoslavia would not have been shot down last fortnight in Marseilles if police had taken proper precautions;* Louis Barthou would...