Word: space
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Reich's Chancellor and His Majesty the King of Italy and Albania and the Emperor of Ethiopia," this new military treaty affirmed the Italian-German determination to "stand side by side with their united strength for the preservation of peace and the securing of their living space." "On these lines forecast by history," the treaty's preamble reads, "Germany and Italy, in the midst of a world of unrest and dissolution, will serve to secure the bases for European culture...
...Philadelphia last week, famed Edwin Powell Hubble of California's Mt. Wilson Observatory-accepting the Franklin Institute's coveted medal for "extensive study of the nebulae, particularly those outside our galaxy, as a result of which: the dimensions of observed space have been greatly increased"-announced discovery of a fifth motion in which the man sitting before his fire unwittingly shares. This is a motion of the whole Milky Way relative to other star galaxies glimmering in the abysses of space...
...discovery of further and greater cosmic motions may be made when bigger telescopes (such as Caltech's 200-inch) are completed. At present the visible universe is a galaxy-studded space a billion light-years in diameter. Some day it may be found that this whole aggregation with its hidden fringes is moving as an organized system relative to other aggregations of comparable size, not yet seen...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...
...American financial interests, it is attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention in behalf of investments is either acceptable or unnecessary; and it would be highly unfortunate if short-sighted opposition from the representatives of special interest groups...