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...wheel and the sphere have the same center, but the sphere is considerably larger. The diameter of the wheel is 10,000 light years, while that of the sphere is well over 100,000. A light year is equal to 6,000,000,000,000 miles...
...relationship between the solar system in which we dwell and the rest of our universe is similar to that of a wheel placed in a sphere, stated Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, in his recent Sigma Xi talk...
...wheel is spiral rather than planar in shape. Its more well-known name is that of the Milky Way. The measurements of its various dimensions are highly accurate. Those of the sphere are far less certain since it is difficult to calculate the precise outer limit of the sphere. This is due to the thinning out of the stars along its outer fringes...
...docile Parliament that the Hungarian State had always been based on democratic principles, always pursued a democratic policy "in the best meaning of the word. The Hungarian kingdom must be restored," he added amid cheers. "Restoration would bring about a solidification and pacification ... of the whole southeastern European sphere...
...failed to win cooperation in the occupied areas; now persuasion and propaganda were to be given another chance. The Society's aim, according to the Tokyo radio: "To drive home to the hearts of one billion Asiatics the lofty ideas of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...