Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Telescopic photographs taken at the University after the receipt of the cablegram show the comet to be brighter than Baade's comet, which was recently discovered, and to be moving more rapidly. It is going southeast at the rate of between three and four diameters of the moon per day. At present it is of the seventh magnitude; somewhat too faint, to be seen with the naked...
Work has been begun at the University on a temporary building to house certain of the Business School offices, on the old Agassiz lot at the southeast corner of Quincy street and Broadway, opposite Robinson Hall...
...also true that in the southeast corner the line includes in Poland some territory with a Ukranian majority. This is, however, mainly a poor, wooded and marshy territory, only scantly populated before the war; and during the war it was so much fought over that today it is almost entirely depopulated and empty...
...Japanese are in Southeast Siberia; in what force and with what intentions seems to be a subject unworthy of discussion. That the highly efficient Imperial Japanese Government is acting without definite aim is improbable. If the aim is insidious, then the sooner the western democracies come to an understanding with their eastern ally the better. If it is not, an enlightenment will only serve to dispell any unjust suspicions that may exist. Whether the Japanese purposes are legitimate and desirable or not, we ought to be well aware of what they are, for the future history of the world...
...Pettit had his first opportunity to study conditions in Russia in 1916-17, when he was attached to the American Embassy in Russia and was entrusted with the interests of the Austrian and German prisoners in the southeast of Russia. After the Revolution of 1917 he left Russia by way of Siberia, studying the country as he travelled through it. On his return to America he received a commission in the United States Army as a captain, attached to the General Staff in Washington in the Russian Political Division of Military Intelligence. After the Armistice he went to the Peace...