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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sued the city of Atlanta, Ga., charging that it permitted planes to fly too low, endangering him. and annoying him by the dust they stirred up. He lost the case. And in the same year a similar suit was dismissed in Pennsylvania with the ruling: "Invasions of the air space are trespass only when they interfere with proper enjoyment of reasonable use of the surface." Last week another court decision on a similar plea added no conclusion to the situation but gave it a fresh slant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New and Romantic | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...supernal fecundity to our labors and good works. . . . These, venerable brethren and beloved children, are the wishes, these the hopes which we, present among you not only in the person of our Legate, but also in a way by that paternal love which transcends and conquers distance and space, commend in suppliant prayer to the most sacred heart of Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Luneta | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...appearance of faint and distant galaxies in the field with the variable stars gives the assurance of space transparoney," he said. "Photographs were made at the Observatory's South African station, and a new series has just been received which will serve to extend the study deeper, since they were made with a large reflector...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHAPLEY TALKS ABOUT WORK OF OBSERVATORY | 2/10/1937 | See Source »

building is finished and available for exhibition space. Five-sixths of the museum's treasures are in its cellars, with no space to show them. Of his $15,500,000 fund, President Stokes intends to set aside two-thirds to finish the building, complete and endow its collections. The balance will endow the Museum's schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philadelphia Program | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

Urbane, affable, gregarious, he likes good Scotch, good cigars, good dinners, Stilton cheese, seldom appears without a white carnation in his lapel. Years ago after making long telescope observations, with a glass of Scotch & soda for company, he used to dream that he was suspended in interstellar space at a temperature of Absolute Zero. Lately such nightmares have troubled him less frequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No. 1 Amateur | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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