Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled, refines her sin, lays the ghost by seducing her father. All are consumed?sin, protagonists, accessories?when the idiot crone Jinny, childishly embracing her candle for a star, turns the old house into a holocaust...
...being retained under his tutelege while the remainder were sent to join Coach Lake's second string men. Of the players kept, six are pitchers, four catchers, eight outfielders, two first basemen, two second basemen, two third basemen, and three shortstops. On the pitching staff are Phillip Spalding '25, star hurler of the 1924 team, J. E. Toulmin '25, letter man in 1923 and understudy to Spalding last spring, together with R. E. Cordingley '25, R. W. Puffer '26, E. L. Gehrke '25, of football fame, and J. H. Gebelein '26. The four catchers are J. J. Maher '26, captain...
...former McGill University star, G. W. Rumpel 1G.B., engaged C. A. C. Eastman '24, N. E. A. A. U. champion, in a battle only decided by the referee. Of the other defending champions, K. C. Williams 2L., in the 125-pound class, defeated J. E. Klaw 1L, by a fall, and retained the title by the referee's decision in his bout with A. J. Bronstein '25: Milton Krook '25, champion in the 115-pound class, retained his title unchallenged...
...Mount Wilson Observatory announced that it had completed measurement of the variable star Mira and found it to be, by angular measurement, .06 of a second of arc - about 25% larger than Betelgeuse. It is believed to be about 165 light years distant, which makes its diameter about 250,000,000 miles. Only one larger star, Antares, has been measured.* Therefore, if the centre of Mira were where the center of our Sun is, the orbit of the Earth would be some 25,000,000 miles inside the surface of Mira...
...star Mira was discovered to vary in intensity by the astronomer Fabricus in 1596. It is a deep red color and fluctuates in periods of eleven months -is sometimes 200 times brighter at maximum than at minimum light. Mira has a companion star very close to it, which was discovered at Lick Observatory...