Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round-topped whalebacks for the most part-carry coal" etc., but there are only about four of this type in inter-lake traffic while there are about 400 United States boats of the new flat-deck, straight-side type. Again, "they haul-iron ore from Lake Superior's southern shores." Escanaba, "Marquette and Ashland are the south shore ports. This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette and Escanaba was estimated at 10,000,000. Duluth-Superior and Two Harbors tonnage 41,380,931. Incidentally, did you know that Duluth-Superior port...
...chief iron-ore-producing region of the United States, moreover, is north and west of Lake Superior; and shipment is made from the northern shore in much greater volume than "from the lake's southern shores...
...equator, as we have seen, stars near both poles will always be too near the horizon for good observations, while at either pole, an observer would never see more than half the celestial sphere. Perhaps no better combination of two stations is possible than one anywhere in the southern temperate zone, cooperating with one similarly placed in the northern hemisphere. This has ben accomplished approximately for many years by the Harvard Observatery with its auxiliary station at Arequipa, Peru."MILKY WAY The cut of the galaxy reproduced above was made from a photograph taken at the Harvard Observatory at Arequipa...
...need for a Southern Observatory is apparent if a complete survey of the stellar universe is desired. In discussing this subject in a recent issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Professor S. I. Bailey '88, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy says...
...about three-fourths of the sky, and for the most part under very favorable conditions. Stars within 45 degrees on the north pole never set, so that they may be observed as continuously as the Sun permits. The position of the Earth is a good one except for for southern stars and for these one must go below the equator. It is on this account that for a long time northern one servatories have established more or less permanent branch stations in the Southern Hemisphere, and southern colonies and nations have established observatories of their own, or have encouraged their...